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Word: crowded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon he sees her coming down the platform. It is easy to pick her out. No mistaking her for someone's secretary. She looks fresh and eager, with her saucy had and sleek fur coat. He watches her face as it searches the crowd anxiously. The expression is too good to miss. After all, this is a foreign city to her. Then she spies him, and Vag smiles a really happy smile. It has been a long, exam-filled week, but now at long last she stands there in front of him. Smoke swirls around them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 11/5/1938 | See Source »

Marx concluded, "Machine rule values the crowd, but not the mass fundamentally a minority government, it cannot cope with a mobilized citizenry. It is ineffectual in ideological struggles. Its days are numbered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marx Sees Decline of Machine Domination in City Politics | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

...generous Federal patronage, Boss Hague would really turn out his Hudson County vote for Mr. Ely. Boss Hague's answer was to show Secretary Woodring a mammoth, slam-bang political jamboree for Candidate Ely in the Jersey City armory, complete with red-fire, bands, entertainers and an overflow crowd that brought the cheering total to at least 100,000. Franklin Roosevelt's emissary thereupon inserted into his prepared speech a hearty Roosevelt endorsement of Candidate Ely, predicted his election and added: "I know that the President will be thrilled when I give him that report." Opposing Democrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Jersey Deal | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...first meeting of the year last night, the Slavic Circle presented the Soviet film "Chapayev" before a capacity crowd in the Winthrop House Common Room. Preceding the showing of the film Ernest J. Simmons of the Slavie department spoke briefly on the life of Chapayev and the significance of the movie in the development of Soviet cinema...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slavic Circle Presents "Chapayev" | 10/28/1938 | See Source »

...Before the game I told the coaches that fighting would mean no 15 yards, but out of the game for the players. We started, and after a couple of minutes, two fackles squared off. My assistants moved toward the exit--they were used to the game--and the crowd milled from the stands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tom Thorp, Dean of Umpires, All for "Schools of Learning" | 10/28/1938 | See Source »

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