scatteration
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Origin of scatteration
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A Humphrey regime would probably be frenetic in its scatteration of ideas—and of money, too, if Humphrey's admitted "looking at the stars" is to be reduced to practical programs.
From Time Magazine Archive
As SEC announced it would do last July, it set about breaking up this "scatteration" of utility holdings in the first exercise of its most bitterly attacked utility duty.
From Time Magazine Archive
Above all, Rockefeller's Oregon win increased what has been called the "scatteration" of strength in the Republican presidential picture.
From Time Magazine Archive
Immediately over the hen's head comes the boy's cap, and there is a scatteration of feathers all over the hay-mow, and the boy is victor.
From Around The Tea-Table by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
I did see one explode at a review in Melbourne—and, my word! what a scatteration it made.
From Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields by Rolf Boldrewood
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