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Between Mars and Jupiter is a great swarm of their little brothers, the planetoids. About 1,000 planetoids have been seen 'with telescopes, although some, are less than 25 miles in diameter. All these planets and planetoids are children...
...deep South last week, boll weevils began to stir for their attack upon the 1930 cotton crop. From ground cracks, from old cotton stalks, from patches of dead grass and weeds, the continental swarm of little quarter-inch beetles crawled out of hibernation to meet the warming sun, to twitch and test the long, sturdy snouts with which they will bore into billions of green cotton bolls this summer. Patient planters, breaking up their ground for the new crop, plowed legions of the pest back into the ground to destruction. But legions more crawled out prepared to multiply. Not plows...
...babbling crowd of mothers that pushed and scrambled to get into the play-yard of Holy Cross Parochial School in Brooklyn. Above the clanging of ambulances, the exhortations of police reserves, panicky rumors flew. Not until the ambulances had all come and gone was the story truly known: a swarm of little girls, playing games at recess, had chosen the covering of an ashpit for "base." Under their jumpings up and down, the grating had sagged, torn open, tumbled about 20 little compounds of sugar & spice into a dusty depth. Falling chunks of concrete had injured 15, including legs broken...
Everybody learned except John who toddled after balls. In the summertime when famed tennis players came to play at tournaments in the clubs around Boston, the John Gorham Palfreys took their swarm of brown-haired, blue-eyed, wiry, sunburned children to the matches. On their own court they practiced what they had seen. In 1926, Elizabeth won the indoor doubles with Marjorie Morrill. Mrs. George Wightman, a resident of Brookline, holder of 31 national titles, came over in the afternoons to give them lessons. The Palfreys had learned by themselves those parts of the game that players not taught...
Having already been besieged by a swarm of eager newspapermen and photographers during the whole day. Amos'n Andy appeared in no way the "funny men" that a popular conception holds stage comedians to be off stage, when a CRIMSON reporter finally gained entrance to their dressing room last night. As a matter of fact, the curly-haired young man who finally escorted him down the stairs and along the long corridor under the Metropolitan theatre seemed well on the way to reversing the situation by interviewing the reporter, for by the time they had reached the dressing room...