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Word: overcrowdedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Mukden's railway station many trains chugged northward last week. Their cars were jammed with trucks, bicycles, ammunition-and Russians. The Soviet Army was evacuating Manchuria's largest metropolis, leaving the stunned, hungry, overcrowded city to the Chinese.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Wounds | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

Overcrowded College Inevitable

Author: By Robert S. Sturgle, | Title: 2600 Registration Now Predicted | 2/5/1946 | See Source »

Even up to the last hours before the deadline, officials were far from certain of their pre-enrollment figures and names. Last-minute dischargees, for example, threaten to swell the already overcrowded ranks and create more problems for a staff that has been increasingly harassed in recent weeks by the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3000 MEN TO CROWD COLLEGE | 2/1/1946 | See Source »

Concierges and shopkeepers asked their intellectual betters what Existentialism means (few can answer, but many try). In the overcrowded metro a working man has been heard to swear at a neighbor who shoved him: "Species of an existentialist!" At one of Prophet Sartre's recent lectures, an overflow mob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Existentialism | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

One Meal a Day. Elected President in 1941, Lescot fitted smoothly into the prevailing Haitian pattern of power. In the poorest, most overcrowded of Latin American republics, a wealthy mulatto elite ruled an ocean of pure blacks. Lescot ran the country under martial law, throttled the press. But even among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Exit Lescot | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

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