Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Holy Cross, Powers caught well and McTighe batted hard. The large crowd which was present had come to see a victory for the home nine and did what they could to win it by their constant yelling and abuse of the umpire. The latter official was extremely poor but had the merit of being impartial...
...into the path of righteousness. Dante on learning this declares he will follow him and will trust him. The poets enter through the gate, which bears the onmious inscription, "Leave hope, ye who enter here," and came into a scene of suffering and lamentation. Passing through the first great crowd of moaning wretches, and crossing the Charon, they come among the souls that are suffering penance for original sin, and no other guilt. Thence they advance into a second circle, at the entrance to which stands Minos, who assigns to the spirits their proper places in Hell. Leaving Minos they...
...near having his brains dashed out by the thrown hammer that it made my hair stand on end. Now, this hammer throwing is done at a place where people are constantly passing and without any extra precautions. It is made more dangerous by the fact that a large indiscriminate crowd congregates about Holmes Field watching the Mott Haven men train. Some simple precaution might prevent a serious accident; hence the suggestion...
Oxford won the 'varsity boat race with Cambridge Saturday by two and a quarter lengths. It was the fifty-second contest between the universities and was rowed over the regular course, from Putney to Mortlake, four and a half miles. There was the usual immense crowd along the Thames to see the race, and the river was crowded with all kinds of craft, but the arrangements for keeping the course clear were perfect...
When the decision was announced the crowd gave tripple cheers for Harvard and the students went out on the campus to sing the college glees. The more fortunate adjourned to the banquet which took place immediately after. The spacious dining rooms of the Princeton Inn were festooned with colors of the two universities and everything was arranged in a way suggestive of the generous rivalry between the crimson and the orange and black. There were 75 professors, alumni and friends of the two colleges...