Word: astir
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very early hour the city was astir to see the great historical procession, the crowning feature of the week of jubilee. The streets were roped off and were paraded by numberless police, who confined the crowds to the sidewalks and to the great stands (tribunes they called them) erected in Bismarck Place and along Leopold Strasse. The spectators on the sidewalks were Germans of the middle and lower classes; and the contemplation of their various traits would have furnished profitable amusement for an entire day. Most of them realized the exhaustive nature of the display and were already fortifying...