Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Moroccan situation gave Italy her chance to step into Tripoli, a land filled with a motley crowd of people. There are whites, Arabs, and Negroes composing the chief element of the population, and there are the Bedouins or nomadic Arabs living in the oases which are sprinkled over the desert and around the towns. But these people are hard to civilize and, as much as they hate their Turkish conquerors, they like them better than they do the Christians. The country has always been closed to the civilizing influences which have sometimes been set toward it. It remains a land...
...open the speedway around Soldiers Field to motors on the days of big games. Heretofore motors have been obliged to drive through North Harvard street and into Stadium street in order to park machines in the vicinity of the Stadium. The heavy motor traffic has been dangerous in the crowd of pedestrians, and there has always been much delay for occupants of motors in getting to and from the games...
...piper will then draw out in linked sweetness the interminable train of senescent undergraduates from all the better bath-rooms in the Yard. It will be a big time for you, gentle reader,--yes, a very doggy day. Hats and tin cups will be doled out by the Capable Crowd,--a little group of earnest men who have signified their intention of helping in this great work. Also tubas with their individual mouth pieces,--some horn...
...University team scored its eighth straight victory by defeating Brown Saturday afternoon, 11 to 1. The game was very slow and over half of the large crowd which was drawn out by the straw hat weather left before it ended. Brown was put to the extreme of using four pitchers. Warner survived the first three innings when he gave place to Conzalman, who lasted two innings. Clark was the next man in the box but he survived only one period, when he was replaced by McGovern, who finished the game. The wildness of these men together with the six errors...
...CRIMSON advances this suggestion merely in the hope that an opportunity may be given to the individual undergraduate, as such, to take part in one of the best forms of outdoor exercise, without leaving Cambridge, and without interference from the usual crowd that gathers at public skating places...