Word: teems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest number of arrests-both felony and misdemeanor-hopheads, gambling joints, "hook-shops" (mostly girls on "call" or working out of their own apartments), TIME'S area is probably San Francisco's toughest. It is an area that seems to sleep in the daytime in order to teem with activity at night...
Last week Executive Director John H. Baker of the National Audubon Societies surveyed by air a lifeless desert, populated only by spinning whirlwinds of sand and hot ashes, where a green wilderness used to teem with birds-ibis, herons, cranes, ducks, snowy egrets...
...staying at home. Greatest Spanish feat along this line was to build at stupendous cost in the days of King Alfonso XIII the finest network of concrete roads outside the U. S. and then omit to spend the few additional millions on advertising which would have made them teem with tourist cars. His Majesty personally did more to encourage tourists than has any other King or Emperor, would stop and shake hands with American Express Co. groups of 200 and more...
...British crook, who received from $10 to $50 for his trouble. Last week expensively-dressed, 220-lb. Mr. Kassel was found bullet-riddled in a ditch 20 miles outside London. Wide open broke a major European vice racket about which detectives on both sides of the channel seemed to teem with information...
Officially disarmed to a minimum by post-War treaties which they have not yet officially broken, Austria and Hungary teem with assorted illegal armaments, but neither could put in the field forces strong enough to cope with the Little Entente. That job, shrewd Zita thinks, will be taken on by the Great Powers to prevent just such a general war as Dr. Benes envisioned. In snug, smug Habsburg circles last week chances were considered better than good that, if Otto is first proclaimed merely Regent in Vienna, the Great Powers will keep the Little Entente in check, promising...