Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tufts played its best brand of ball before a capacity crowd. The Jumbos presented a tightly-knit defense and broke up Crimson passes time and time again. The Feslermen were never able to get a fast-breaking attack started, and their scoring was limited to an occasional basket by Charley Lutz or Homer Peabody. The latter turned in the evening's best defensive job as he held center Charley Tibbs to six points...
...Capitalism collapsed in the United States in 1929. We don't know it yet, but history will prove it," Granville Hicks '23, Follow in American History, stated at a meeting of the Liberal Club of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, last night before a record crowd...
When 1,500,000 U. S. boys came back from France in 1919, the bands played Over There, K-K-K-Katy, The Star-Spangled Banner, and crowds lionized them. When 322 U. S. boys and a girl came back from Spain last week, a small crowd did the lionizing, and the song was again The Star-Spangled Banner...
Climax of the celebration was the arrival in Pretoria of the eight dusty wagons. Because the Boers and their backers would not sing God Save the King, Prime Minister General J.B.M. Hertzog was obliged to stay away. The crowd of 150,000 would not listen to English. So a message from King George VI was read in Afrikaans, the Boer language. Then a tattered Transvaal flag, saved from falling into British hands in the Boer War, was unfurled high on the site of a monument soon to be erected to the Voertrekkers...
Sometimes a very little college has a very big professor, and for a moment it flutters in the spotlight as students from far off crowd in to hear this man who for some reason of his own chooses to teach there. Maybe he likes the climate. But finally he retires, and with him the college into the obscurity from which he had brought...