Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many of the packs have historical significance. In one very valuable set issued in 1680 the identification characters at the top are all but crowded out by wood cut illustrations of the suppression of the "horrid.. popish plot" of 1679. One of the pictures shows the hanging of five...
When the hearing adjourned they crowded around while friends were wrapping the head of the House of Morgan in his woolen muffler. Why would the destruction of the leisure class mean the end of civilization? Who were the leisure class?
Over a period of ten years Vagabonding has become such a popular pursuit that lately there has been a tendency for some students to trespass upon the precincts of the rightful members of the courses. Enrolled students find themselves crowded off the prayer rug by the pilgrims of other lands...
The inconvenience is most acute in the small lecture rooms, especially in Harvard Hall. The later arrivals in Government 30 for example have perched on the windowsills, sprawled on the floor, and baked on the radiators, while a large host of auditors have appropriated the choice seats. The method used...
Up again to crowded Moscow from his bleak hut on the Donbas Steppe last week went famed Alexei Stakhanov (TIME, Dec. 16), the shrewd Soviet coal miner who devised a method ("Stakhanovism'') for speeding up the toil of Russian workers. A nationwide intensive labor speed-up for ten...