Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With a swarm of speculators descending on the Square, the H.A.A. has been forced to hire two private detectives to investigate any reported illicit Yale game transactions, William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, announced yesterday...
Amid this tension, Japanese officers, who said they would like to attend last week the funeral of four British soldiers slain by stray shells fortnight ago, were refused permission by the British. Chinese officers were permitted to attend and a swarm of Chinese students dashed through Shanghai streets cheering and waving banners inscribed: "LONG LIVE OUR BRITISH FRIENDS...
...minutes before 9 o'clock. Manager Bob Whitman is the last man into the Varsity Club. A few minutes after the hour. Vernon Struck is the first man out. Frank Ryan, Stan Deland, Manager Ollie Bolton and Shippen Goodhue appear. The doors open and 36 players swarm out, suitcases in hand...
...that of the Congressional Library or New York's Public Library. Alumni and visitors are awed by its murals, marble, and majesty, by its steps and circumference, its showcases and treasures. But, except at reading and examination periods, they may well wonder at the scarcity of students amid the swarm of employees and professors...
...young Chinese airmen, each piloting a U. S.-built Curtiss-Hawk, whirred up and away into the northwest to meet the invaders. Just as the Chinese disappeared, the first Japanese air squadron came over from the opposite direction, the southeast, flying two miles up, a faintly buzzing swarm of about 40 grey ships in a dazzling blue sky. Faster than anyone could think three things happened. The Japanese power-dived upon Nanking, Chinese anti-aircraft guns on the hills around the capital opened up, and reserve Chinese pursuit fighters took the air, climbing to tear like clawing condors...