Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seals' whelping season is over. Then St. John's sends the ships off, each jammed by 100 to 300 swilers, with cheers, bunting, band music and cannon fire. Swilers work on shares and the trip to the seal herds is a bitter race. Arrived, the swilers swarm out over the ice with their long, hooked gaffs, begin bashing in seals' skulls right & left. Swilers never shoot seals, except in self-defense against an angry, sharp-toothed male, but they sometimes make the ice fly in front of their rivals in the race to the main herd...
...down to rest in a Malay jungle he knows at once what causes each and every noise. "The East Indian binturong," says he, ''is a strange creature, half-bear, half-cat." Presently the binturong is laughing in a cage. When Frank Buck pitches a camp, white monkeys swarm on the roof. When he looks at a tree, there is a leopard in it. When a friendly potentate gives him a pig for Thanksgiving dinner, a python crawls halfway into the pig's pen, eats the pig, finds itself trapped. To catch langur monkeys, he makes...
...infamous "Lung Block" near Alfred Emanuel Smith's birthplace on the Lower East Side, 360 of the 386 evicted families promptly settled down in squalor within two blocks of their old homes. If whole areas are reclaimed, slumdwellers swarm into whole new areas, blighting them like locusts. Nevertheless, the PWA has earmarked $25,000,000 for Manhattan slum-clearance -a very small drop in a billion-dollar bucket. The State has authorized the setting up of a Municipal Housing Authority and 5,000 CWA workers in an exhaustive survey spent the winter slumming. No plans have yet been adopted...
...Nazi high command prepared to foist golf on the German people. It ordered the exclusive clubs to lower their membership fee to two marks for adults, one mark for minors. It prepared to dot Germany with public courses, lower the cost of clubs and balls and announce a swarm of tournaments, beginning with a national amateur...
...giant crabs, salmon, herring and cod that swarm along the broken Russian coast of the Okhotsk, Japan and Bering Seas, were last week the subject of grave diplomatic conversations in Tokyo and Moscow. Russian property, they became international following the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) when the Japanese demanded and got equal rights with Russians to fish certain waters. After the Russian Revolution, Japanese fishermen stampeded into all the best fishing grounds, exported their crab catch largely to the U. S., their salmon catch to Britain. Not until 1928, when an eight-year Fishing Convention was signed, did the Soviet...