Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin an even noisier welcome awaited the Boesses. So ugly was the crowd in front of the great Charlottenburg station that police officials persuaded the Mayor to continue on to the station near the Zoological Gardens. Another crowd, just as loud, waited there, booing industriously. Forming a flying wedge, a cordon of leather-shakoed Schupos* hustled Bürgermeister Boess and wife into the station master's office, then spirited them away through a back door to their home...
...first western invasion since the late fall of 1920, Harvard will be exhibiting its football wares to a curious and expectant crowd. It is more than football, however, that will draw eighty thousand spectators into the Michigan stadium. To the alumni of the middle-west the team represents a vital connecting link between themselves and Harvard, and the Michigan adherents see the players in the light of emissaries from an ancient and famous college of the East to one of the out-standing universities of the middle-west...
...When we speak of a snob, we mean one who can act as an individual, who can deviate from the footsteps of the crowd, and not care what other people think. I admire Harvard for going its own way without trying to curry favor. It is a highly self-sufficient institution, not trying to follow the crowd. It does things as a gentleman. It does not have individual snobbishness in the ordinary sense of the word. Snobbery is one of the oldest Harvard traditions; a genuine snob will be either reactionary or radical, not conservative or liberal...
...everything within a half mile of the Yard was dominated by the College, and even those of us who lodged in rooms outside the College buildings during some part of our four years were still within the academic sphere of influence. All now is different. Apartment houses crowd the streets and surround the Yard. The city engulfs...
...Burning gas exploded and blew out the door, the flame rushed into other rooms. People staggered out of blazing doorways. Some were taken away in ambulances. One man died of his burns. All day the building-a laboratory of Consolidated Film Industries-burned like a pine torch while a crowd watched and fire-engines drenched the studios on each side of it with water. When the fire was over no one for a while could open the red-hot doors of the vaults in which "master" films were stored...