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Word: crowdedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven hundred Freshmen crowded all over the top floor of Phillips Brooks House last night to hear 17 undergraduate leaders give them pearls of wisdom from the extra-curricular world of Harvard.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 700 OF FRESHMEN HEAR 17 SPEAKERS IN BROOKS HOUSE | 9/27/1938 | See Source »

All of the seats were filled, and the Yardlings filled the aisles, main doorway, and main stairway. Some particularly enthusiastic members of the class engaged in dart throwing from the front, while others crowded up the back stairway and attacked the speakers from the rear.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 700 OF FRESHMEN HEAR 17 SPEAKERS IN BROOKS HOUSE | 9/27/1938 | See Source »

The House of Tavelinck, by Holland's leading feminist and most popular novelist, is a long (738 pages), crowded, historical romance told against an 18th-Century background of the fight between the House of Orange and the Dutch democrats. Like many a present-day historical novel, this one is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Below Sea Level | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

More remarkable than the fact that one of the most active gadders in the U. S. can find time to turn out a daily column is the fact that in doing so she has consistently avoided making serious boners. Without being maudlin or saying an ill word of anyone, she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nation's Neighbor | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

As well as being one of the noisiest and most crowded in the world, the New York subway system is also the safest. Over its 230 miles of track bed, 8,755 electric trains clatter daily on split-minute headway, carrying well over 1,500,000,000 passengers every year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Subway Jam | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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