Word: overruns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard has pursued an athletic policy which, in comparison with those of other institutions, has been the epitome of sanity, Bingham is probably unique among athletic directors in admitting that in the years of million dollar gate receipts-money flowed too freely even at Harvard. With the reporters who overrun the offices of the H. A. A., he is completely frank, enjoys a very favorable press...
...times past the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Vandals, Moors and Spaniards have overrun the Island of Mallorca, "Pearl of the Mediterranean" off the coast of Spain. Their admixed descendants, the Mallorcans, have very black, sunken eyes, a strangely dissipated look. They lazily raise silk worms, goats, oranges, olives, almonds...
...October 1918 the A. E. F., having overrun St. Mihiel, was bursting its way through the Argonne and all the Allied armies were plowing into the German front. It was an expensive pastime, both in life and money. Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo then had a big problem. Money there had to be, and in October 1918 the U. S. Treasury was very busy drumming up $7,000,000,000 from the U. S. public in exchange for 4th Liberty Loan 4 1/4% bonds payable in October 1938. In the bonds which were delivered to patriotic buyers there...
...bounds of reasonable possibility and not to sacrifice reality for dramatic effect. It would have been easy, for example, to bring the Japanese battle fleet to Hawaii or even to the American seaboard. I might even have conveyed whole Japanese Army corps to San Francisco and allowed them to overrun the Pacific slope. But to do so would have been to expose the narrative to the well-merited ridicule of informed critics...
...depressed farmer cut off the rear end of his disused' automobile, fastened shafts to the axle, backed in a mule, went riding. Other farmers, unable to buy 23c gasoline with 7c cotton or $5 tires with n^ tobacco, did the same. Soon the roads of eastern North Carolina were overrun with similar vehicles pulled by mules, horses, oxen, goats or a pair of husky boys. North Carolinians, many of whom had been Hoovercrats in 1928, transposed two letters of the term, called their conveyances Hoovercarts...