Word: overrunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arose again last week in a dispute between officials of and 14 entrants in the Seabright, N. J., invitation tournament. Like most clubs which hold invitation tennis tournaments, Seabright Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club offers to house and feed competitors. In the old days, before tennis became overrun with characters whose social graces approximate those of young public links golfers, club members fell over each other to get visiting players as house guests. Since last year the Seabright club has not offered to house and feed competitors for the duration of the tournament but only so long as they remain...
...yourself when you get rich. . . . You're the first man I've talked to in six months who didn't ask me to give him some money to pay his grandmother's hospital bill. ... I took the job as mayor because the town was getting overrun with the wrong kind of people. . . . We used the Baptist church for a jail, then we got a little jail built and they used the church for a dance hall. Finally some fellow came into town one Sunday afternoon and set fire to our two churches. Burnt 'em down...
Because the Indians regard the Virgin of Guadalupe as their own special patroness (possibly identified also with pre-Christian goddesses), their celebration of Dec. 12 is exceedingly lively. Says Terry: "Foreigners find this unique, but trying. The unhygienic and ignorant Indians overrun the village to such an extent that the problem of preventing pestilence is a serious one. . . . The ch. is usually packed to suffocation: the devotees bring habits and an entomological congress as varied as they are astonishing, all the ch. decorations within reach are kissed to a high polish and thoroughly fumigated later, and all breathe freer when...
...ancient peoples of Central Europe are important also for other reasons than their immediate effect upon our own forefathers; for both Greece and Italy were repeatedly overrun by invading tribes in very early times, most of whom came from the North, and the Greeks and Romans were to a considerable extent the descendants of these northern invaders. He who would understand the origins, as well as the downfall, of classical culture must turn his eyes to the restless barbarians of Central Europe
...Laccadive Islands, off the western coast of India, cats and crows cannot stand the climate. Result: the Laccadives are overrun with rats. The inhabitants of the Laccadives last week implored Mother India: "Send us hungry owls...