Word: swarm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over northern California spread a general alarm. Highways were blocked, drawbridges raised, a swarm of officers and two U. S. Army pursuit planes put on the trail. After a few miles the convicts tossed out Secretary Noon to warn pursuing police that the boardmen were still in their automobile. Finding a raised drawbridge in their path, they doubled back, sped unharmed through the helpless posse. The police caught up again, burst their quarry's rear tires with a blast of bullets. A slug plowed through Boardman Sykes' thigh, pinked Boardman Stephens...
...COLONEL LINDBERG ARRIVING ON DAMSTERDYK" This telegram, received in a Liverpool shipping office, caused clerks, sailors, housewives and steamship officials to drop their work, swarm over the docks, prepare a rousing welcome for Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. In the midst of a great din the Dutch freighter Damsterdyk tied up. Down the gangplank, blinking behind heavy spectacles, marched Colonel Irving Augustus Isaac Lindberg, High Commissioner of Nicaragua, Collector-General of Customs. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, whose biggest duty is to appease Nicaragua's foreign bondholders. Vastly disgruntled, the crowd drifted away...
Grover was responsible for Harvard's lone goal Friday when he led a swarm of Harvard forwards in charging the Eli guardian, driving him back into the cage before he could clear the ball. Johnny England, Crimson goalie, managed to ward off Bulldog attackers with great difficulty. The summary: HARVARD YALE England, g. g., Blake Stent, Holcombe, l.f.b. r.f.b., Ward, Orth Robinson, r.f.b. l.f.b., Murray (Capt.), Belin Vincent, Russell, l.h.b. r.h.b., Upton, Bronson Dorman, c.h.b. c.h.b., Badman, Smith Roosevelt, Seeman, r.h.b. l.h.b., Brill, Larkin Wood, l.o.f. r.o.f., Coerr, Jennings Stork, (Capt.). Kelley, l.i.f. r.i.f. Pond Grover, c.f. c.f., Badger Clos...
...campaign room, a dozen precinct captains swarm around the phone. Each wears a round badge, patriotically decorated in red, white, and blue, also with green, yellow, and purple, thrown in to make it attractive. An enormously fat bull-dog with a hide that was once white, rolls on the floor in the havoc of cigar-butts, torn posters, and dirt. He slouches away from one of the campaign managers. He upsets the spittoon. "Jesus, Curley, watch it!" one of the cigar-chewers admonishes...
...concern. Dr. Jean Piccard, brother of famed ecstatic Stratospherist Auguste Piccard, was tired and the rough landing hurt his foot. He curled up in a blanket and rested. Mrs. Piccard powdered her nose. The sealed barograph went to Washington. The cosmic ray recorders went to Dr. W. F. G. Swarm of Swarthmore's Bartol Research Foundation. A sack of mail went to stamp collectors...