Word: overrunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those enrolled in the proposed adult courses would be the "A. A.", or Accumulative Arts degree, already given to those who complete a required number of courses under Harvard instructors in the state-run extension school. There is no need for a new degree; this country is already overrun with initials...
This strange dream did thrust me forward some three hundred years to a land which was called Newe England which today I hear is overrun by savages but in my dream it was most fair. And I sat in a room A in a building which looked like a storage house but which was called Emerson. And it was exactly at noon. And there I did sit as a Vagabond in search of truth; and did hear a most learned and interesting professor, a Dr. Prall, squeak with enthusiasm over Hobbes, a man of my own time and country...
...Harvard, earnest pacifists were overrun by "The Michael Mullins Chowder & Marching Club," a nebulous society dedicated to confounding all who take themselves seriously. Chowder Marchers goose-stepped through Harvard Square with swastikas, steel helmets, real machine guns. At the end of Peace Day student pacifist leaders loudly called it a complete success. Pacifists had been egged in Chicago, sprinkled in Los Angeles, laughed down at Harvard, ignored throughout much of the South and Midwest. But big turnouts in the East, despite a chilly rain, had raised the number of demonstrators almost to the 150,000 which Peace Day leaders...
True some shots were taken at Chatsworth, within the radius given. But for two weeks this mountain town, [200 mi. from Hollywood] was overrun with synthetic Bengalese, an increase of 31 ⅓ % in population. Paramount dropped $30,000 of the million and a half here, gave most their first glimpse of an elephant, almost succeeded in driving a few of our topers into taking the pledge. My congregation upped one, a gloriously illuminated grip-man, one of eight rewarded with a gallon-of-whiskey bonus by the director for working all Saturday night...
This year, however, with the progress of Roosevelt recovery and the coincident rise in the birth rate, the squirrels have repeatedly threatened to overrun the Yard. Stringent measures have indeed been necessary to keep down the slate colored hordes, and to prevent the steady demolition of the foundations of such derelict edifices as Brooks House by the eroding action of countless razor-sharp molars...