Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the U. S. last week Department of Agriculture agents were pushing an intensive campaign against insect pests. Catastrophic visitations like the Buffalo gnat swarm which descended on Arkansas last month (TIME, May 7) usually catch entomologists as well as farmers off guard, but against better known enemies spring surveys are conducted to find out how they survived the winter. Reports this year were far from heartening. Grasshoppers, No. 1 bane of Northwestern grain farmers, got through a mild winter in enormous numbers. Chinch bug mortality in the Midwest was only 3%. In Indiana and Kansas 93% of Hessian flies...
...wife Nicole, and their satellites. Among these expatriate Americans "promenading insouciantly upon the national prosperity" are Tommy Barban, an adventurer who has worn the uniform of many nations and is obviously in love with Nicole; Abe Martin, once a musician; the Mckisces who are writing a novel. These swarm about the Divers and gain what stability they have from them, for Nicole is not only beautiful and charming but a successful hostess of her hilltop villa and Dick Diver is handsome and gay, and claims to be the only American man with repose...
Though preachers (usually) must be licensed, politicians elected and princes born, anyone is free to become a prophet. From Major Prophet Marx to Minor Prophet H. G. Wells there has been a swarm of soothsayers laying down the law, but rarely have their tables of stone weathered the drizzle of a single generation. Of the modestly minor interpreters of the modern U. S., Lewis Mumford has one of the most respectful followings. No Jeremiah, no hard-shell Marxian, with no patent axe to grind, he goes at the complex mass of modern civilization with all five senses. Technics and Civilization...
Like a great swarm of bees, the House of Commons suddenly buzzed into life. No institution in the world is so jealous of its prerogatives as the British House, where neither king nor peers may enter without due permission. Sessional Order...
...place a lofty plateau. Lieut.-Colonel Sewell had no doubt that the drowned mountains once topped large exposed land masses which might well be the hypothetical continent "Lemuria," proposed by Germany's late Naturalist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel to explain the fact that lemurs, lowest of primates, swarm in Madagascar and the Malay Islands, are scarce elsewhere. Last week as the Mabahiss prepared to wind up its cruise, the expedition's secretary in Cambridge received another report, accompanied by samples of water and ooze from depths down to five miles. Beneath a wide patch of the Indian Ocean, Leader...