Word: infest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Whatever opinions may be held relative to the abolition of managership competitions, there can be no two views on athletic subscriptions. The beginning of each College year witnesses the visitations of swarms of collectors, who infest all quarters of Cambridge, making themselves objectionable everywhere. Things have come to such a pass that upperclassmen, realizing the small part subscriptions play in supporting the teams, seldom receive the collectors with civility, and still more seldom with charity. The baffled harpies are driven to "bleeding" guileless Freshmen, haunting their rooms during the first two or three days in order to catch them before...
...visited most of the countries of the Orient, where he has had unusual opportunities for acquiring an intimate knowledge of the land. He is thoroughly conversant with both the inhabited regions of the East and the wastes of desert and jungle. In exterminating the lions and tigers that infest many of the Asiatic and African villages, Dr. Smith has frequently been a great benefactor to the natives...
...correspondent Mr. Moore visited the Balkan frontier and saw much of the fighting, which consists of a continual guerrilla warfare among the brigands, who infest the region, and ceaseless war between the Moslems and Trucks. The pictures show the country and many scenes of actual fighting...