Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than 100 critics of Art and Literature crowded into a Manhattan soda fountain at No. 1410 Broadway last week. Their purposes were: 1) to imbibe what flowed from the fountain's spigots; 2) to see the room the fountain was in.
Puerto Cabezas, with its 300 U. S. residents, was panic-stricken at the news of the Logtown raid. Next came news that Sandino's bandits had fired Gracias a Dios, 60 mi. north along the Mosquito Coast. Puerto Cabezas knew it would be next. Women and children crowded aboard the...
In dead of night, in a howling snow-storm last week the special train of Their Majesties the King & Queen of Siam entered the U. S. at Portal, N. Dak. Lean farm families and their shivering hound dogs crowded the snow-swept platform, pressed close to the brightly lighted train...
Among those passing through the tunnel were: a priest from Notre Dame University on his way to a dentist appointment: a horsey Kentuckian on his way to a race track; an unemployed plumber; a railway switchman; the wife of a packing company official come to town to do some shopping...
It was a hot, still morning in Managua, Nicaragua's capital. U. S. Marines in their tents at Campo de Marte mopped their brows and wondered idly at the exuberance with which the Managuan oxcart drivers were shouting, brandishing their goads, yelling insults at honking motorists this particular morning...