Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Where dusk approaches like a locust-swarm...
Always Torvald Hoyer was the Understander.* At the cry of ''Hep!" he would arch his chest, flex his muscles and allow the rest of the Montrose Six to swarm all over him, stand on his head, festoon themselves from his arms. This went on for years. Playing Switzerland one year, he met and married a Danish toe dancer...
...Like a swarm of insects attracted by spilled sugar, 437 airplanes of all shapes and sizes last week buzzed into Miami for the eighth annual shindig known as the All-American Air Maneuvers. Incidents...
...anyone were so rash as to question the standing of a debating club as an indispensable part of the college, the ones attacked would swarm about him and riddle him with piercing arguments. The clash of two bodies armed with football pads is more exciting than the clash of two intellects armed with barbs of perspicacity. The glamor of brute conflict, of blaring horns and rousing cheers, can never be replaced by the subtle encounters of the mind. But colleges are institutions of learning, and thus they are most truly represented by their debating teams...
...Kelley, after a long circling run, caught for the score that kept Yale from being whitewashed in a game which ended 38-to-7. Intoxicated by an undefeated football season and Princeton's most crushing defeat of Yale in the history of the 62-year-old series, a swarm of Princeton rooters prematurely tore down both goal posts long before the game was over, almost made way with the ball after a placement kick, were roundly booed from the Yale stands...