Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Yusupov Palace on the Liteiny Prospekt in Petrograd, is one of the finest of its kind in the former capital. Since the Bolsheviki assumed power it has become little more than a heap of ruins. Before the War, the Palace was crowded with priceless treasures. They were so well...
The Professional Golfers' Association has fixed the stamp of official disapproval on the crowded entry list of the Open Championship. Last Summer 360 players teed off at Inwood, L. I.; the first Open Championship ever held (Newport, R. I., 1895) attracted only eleven men. The unwieldy groups attracted by...
The wings of the Boston Opera House were crowded at 7 o'clock last night, when over 200 students from Harvard and Radcliffe, who had been engaged to act as the Theban mob in Sir John Martin-Harvey's production of "Oedipus Rex" appeared for their first performance.
"Every German bank is crowded with people trying to get money with which to do business. Huge crowds are jammed about the windows of every paying teller, waiting for hours to draw out money. And I believe that these windows are deliberately undermanned to slow up the outgo of specie...
"While I was staying at Munich, for example, I went to one of the banks to draw some money on my letter of credit. It was the Dresden bank, once one of the most prosperous in Germany. It was located in an enormous building which was a relic of its...