Word: scattered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale, however, occupies a unique position because of its past two decades of departmentalization and the broadening of its group system. These two movements have tended to scatter the student units and at the present moment there is great fear of a loss of vital "organic unity". And finally comes the over-population of the college which is not only unfavourable to social values but which makes it impossible for the university to attempt freer and more generous educational experimentation. Briefly, this is the problem which has since 1914, when the creation of a Third College to stand parallel with...
Simultaneously, last week, French airplanes soared over rebellious Riff tribes in Morocco. The Riff have been bombed so often that when a French plane approaches they scatter, after stampeding their cattle in all directions. Therefore the French chose, last week, a market day and scattered what were described as "light bombs" among the thronging market crowds of several rebel villages...
...honor Joseph Jefferson, the Rip Van Winkle of a thousand stage productions, with the funeral rites of the Church. In at least two large cities of the East, there is no baseball played on Sunday, because the people remember the Fourth Commandment. In some places small loys still scatter and leave their marbles when the village parson walks down the street on Sunday afternoon...
SERIOUS COQUETTE?People scatter tears throughout the auditorium as Helen Hayes shows how a flirt may break her heart...
Came the army to Hungerford. On the outskirts of that town a red cavalcade was seen approaching. The King's troops? Or friendly "Bolshies?" Whether to scatter or march proudly on? Closer and closer came the horsemen. Ah, there were women among them! Evidently a friendly "red" demonstration. The army "snapped into it" and the straggling columns of fours were straightened out, arms swung martially, heads were held proudly up and smiles of anticipation lit the men's faces. Then the whole spectacle was reduced to pathos, for the oncoming horsemen and women were scarlet-coated hunters pursuing...