Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Football, baseball, and rowing succumb alike to the hordes that swarm the links and courts. Tennis is revealed to be the favorite sport of 23 per cent of the class, topping by a comfortable margin football, which is favored by only 11 per cent. Football is also superseded in popularity by golf, which, favored by 12 per cent, triumphs by the narrow margin of one point...
...uninitiate Freshmen swarm to hear...
Almost exactly 1000 officials, ushers, ticket takers and the like will be marshalled into service to handle the huge crowd which will swarm into the Stadium this afternoon to witness the Crimson's football battle with Coach Jesse Hawley's Hanover eleven...
Over a great, rolling plain near Dayton, Ohio, a winged creature appeared, skimming down low through the dusk. As it alighted, another skimmer stole swiftly by-then another and another. The next day and the third day, more winged creatures came, swarming down into the field from all parts of the horizon or dropping hawklike out of the high heavens. They were not swallows nor blackbirds nor wild grey geese, these creatures, but flying men in all sorts and conditions of craft, migrating to Dayton's fifth international air meet.* By the opening day the swarm numbered about...
Instead of crossing the Sound at Greenwich or Rye, the squadron pro ceeded into Westchester, was met by many more welcoming planes. Man hattanites rushed into the streets as a veritable air armada swarmed over Greater New York, followed Fifth Avenue and Broadway to the Battery. The homecomers were distinguished in a compact trio at the center of the swarm...