Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like most U. S. submarines at the outbreak of the War, the L-9, 150-ft. overall, 16-ft. beam, was a crowded, smelly, temperamental craft. She could make 14 knots on the surface, but her red-enameled Diesel engines shook themselves to pieces so frequently the crew strung up...
Before automobile and airplane accidents crowded railroad wrecks off front pages ticket agents did a good business passing out $5,000 insurance policies, covering death and disablement and good for one day's travel, at 25? apiece. Now, so phenomenally safe are railroads, fewer riders bother to insure. But...
Last week she described just how different it was. Her 318-page volume was crowded with characteristic Gertrude Stein incoherencies, lucid passages about herself and Miss Toklas. malicious portraits of other celebrities, scrambled philosophical observations, comments on history, drunks, dogs,, revolutions, writing, painting, genius, the Stein family, the U. S...
Between frequent pauses to autograph copies of his latest work, "The Book of Marvels", in a meek off the crowded main floor of Jordan Marsh's Halliburton amplified his statement. "You don't have to be so crazy you throw things. But I don't even drink. Perhaps it's...
¶ After 18,000 hours in the air (an average of 2½ hours a day for 20 years) during which he completed 2,400,000 miles of flying, United Air Lines veteran pilot, Captain Jack Knight, was retired to a ground job in Chicago as director of public education...