Word: crowding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three of the hours when the polling places were open, have no great amount of time free during the period. If one of the courses meets at a distant point such as Mallinckrodt, there is but a minute or two which could be spared for voting. Yet the crowd around the tables in Sever and Harvard Halls was so thick that no one without plenty of time on his hands could attack it, with any hope of both voting and attending his class. It would not have been hard to have more watchers during the few brief periods when voting...
Slender nematode worms, three to four inches long, breed in the lymph spaces of the afflicted. Their larvae swarm through the blood stream. The kind prevalent in the West Indies and as far north as Charleston, S. C., crowd to the internal organs during daylight. At night they wriggle among the blood corpuscles until they reach the blood vessels close to the skin. Along comes a mosquito. It sucks a sleeper's blood, and with it some filaria larvae...
...instant to pile flowers on the Unknown Soldier's grave in tribute. Leading the parade were President Doumergue. Prime Minister André Tardieu. Foreign Minister Briand, Marshal Pétain, and one-armed General Gouraud. Just at eleven o'clock a cannon boomed, while all the crowd stood for a motionless minute. There were neither speeches nor prayers for Atheist Georges Clémenceau...
...stuffing it into bed. Last week a helium-inflated Captain 50 feet tall floated off over Long Island. Fashioned by Tony Sarg, Manhattan marionetteer, the Captain, Hans und Fritz, Herr Inspektor & Frau Katzenjammer together with gargantuan balloon animals of indeterminate breed and sex, had bobbled down Broadway. An admiring crowd had watched their maudlin progress to the front of the R. H. Macy's (department store)?which they were advertising. There the ropes were cut and the Katzenjammers soared off into the sky followed by the vague animals. Herr Inspektor, loath to soar, ogled into office windows until...
...Columbia 0. By beating Muhlenberg 7-0, Western Maryland became the U. S. team that has won the most (ten), though not the hardest games. Sticking to straight football, West Virginia veered round and thumped past Washington & Jefferson in a snowstorm, 6 to 0. Watched by a bored crowd too cold to cheer, Colgate's backs spun out swift variations of a reverse play that Brown could never understand. Colgate 32, Brown...