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Word: crowds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fourth quarter, when Lincoln was leading 14-to-0, half the spectators were milling around on the field, at times crowding the players into a 60-foot square. Finally, unable to handle the crowd, officials called off the game. Lincoln, leading 14-to-7, claimed victory. Howard protested on the grounds that Lincoln, as host, should have kept the field clear. Irate coaches appealed to the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association to decide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crisis | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...even so versatile a genius as Alec Templeton can hold 6,000,000 radio listeners for a full half hour. So Alec Templeton Time employs guest stars, an orchestra under Symphonist Daniel Saiden-berg, a 16-voice chorus, and, for the last month an Old Country crowd pleaser named James Patrick Rudolph Francis O'Malley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Templeton Time | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Freshmen took their first step toward future stardom by winning the weekly rhumba contest at the Zero Hereford Club Wednesday night. Braving a large crowd of contestants, the two Yardlings. Robert W. Lerner and Winslow B. Ayer, and their escorts hit the groove in that old Cuban...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARDLINGS SHINE IN ZERO HEREFORD RHUMBA CONTEST | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

...Turn it over," some of the crowd shouted as Browder entered the automobile. The car was rocked from side to side, but the driver managed to start it before it could be overturned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Uproar at Yale as Browder Lectures | 11/29/1939 | See Source »

Browder entered the hall by a back entrance because 3,000 persons jammed the two front entrances. As he spoke the crowd outside raised a bedlam, shouting "Viva Hitler" and "Go back to Moscow." The Communist leader several times had to raise his voice to make himself heard inside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Uproar at Yale as Browder Lectures | 11/29/1939 | See Source »

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