Word: swarm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whether Lightnin' would date, knowing that it already dated when first written. For old as folk drama is the tale of warm-hearted Lightnin' Bill Jones, who loafs as chronically as Rip van Winkle, lies as outrageously as Tartarin of Tarascon. Typical whopper: how he drove a swarm of bees across a prairie in the dead of winter without losing...
...Author Norris' eyes seem cool-sighted. His calm view comes partly of his studied concern always to see both sides of Problems: partly, it may be due to the fact that the Norrises have brought up several nephews and nieces, kept open house for a dozen others who swarm uninhibited over the Norris ranch at the foot of the Santa Cruz mountains...
...hopper wave was at its crest in 24 States. In New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle the probable crop damage was estimated at $30,000,000. In the Dakotas, the visitation was the worst in a long roll of such visitations (topped, since the 1880s by the Great Swarm of 1937). Iowa was not so badly off, because spring rains had killed the eggs deposited in the ground by last year's females. But matters might have been worse: a good year for crops is a good year for weeds, and grasshoppers do not have to concentrate on crops...
...first perfected the U. S. sit-down technique cannot get much without fighting for it. On the heights of West Akron, where rubber executives live amid a stench diminished but not conquered by distance and altitude, there is an equally firm conviction that the flatland hordes will some day swarm up the hills, looting and shooting as they come. Last week Akron had a taste of trouble...
Midnight snackers in the Hayes-Bickford lunch last night were sent scurrying for shelter when an explosion in the kitchen rocked the building. Soon a fire developed, bringing a swarm of fire engines to the scene only to find a meagre blaze which was soon...