Word: swarm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publicity has been given to the talent hunt, and the film company is said not to want a swarm of applicants for the jobs, having definite ideas in advance of the type of college graduate wanted...
...Haldane, extraordinary British biologist, prophet and philosopher. His scientific specialty is the application of mathematics to biology, a field in which he has won some renown. A bald, burly, tweedy, shaggy man, he admits he is dogmatic. His reputation for epigrammatic discourse is such that on his travels reporters swarm around him, work him for quotable gems...
...screens at each end to protect spectators from flying pucks, sticks, and occasional severed limbs. But at two o'clock sharp, the tranqull ice is transformed into what resembles a subway rush in the 7th Avenue subway when a hundred or so shabbily dressed people with razor-like skates swarm over the boards-the Rainbow Division going over the top at Hill 22. After a general 15-minute melee, called "warm-up time", a whistle is blown and the first game is about to begin. For purposes of illustration, let us say, between Winthrop and Lowell...
Hopkins admitted that the public is quick to suspect tyranny in an administrative service that becomes too powerful. "The word 'bureaucracy' makes many people think of a swarm of undisciplined office-holders descending on our liberties," he said...
...rely on his imagination. He painted a troop of satyrs and demi-mortals congregating in a meadow around a hollow tree, a young bibulous Bacchus, a grinning Silenus straddling a donkey. Most of the company were engaged in making a racket on tin pans, to coax a swarm of bees into a cluster. Title: The Discovery of Honey...