Word: throng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wonder horses" do not throng the American turf this season. The one beast talked much of as an opponent for Epinard is a Rancocas (Harry F. Sinclair) horse, Grey Lag. He, being of the Star Shoot strain, has suffered the hoof ailments that all of that get seem heir to; may require chiropody to put him in the running...
William Jennings Bryan: "I addressed the Democratic throng in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Digressing upon what I owed to the Democratic Party, said I: 'It took me up when I was ten years younger than any other man had been when he was nominated by a great party, and it found me in a Western state, farther west than it had ever gone before, and it gave me a million more votes than it had given any Democrat before [applause] and it nominated me twice afterward, and I never had to use any money and I had no organization...
...early as 4.30 o'clock, the crowd had begun to form around the wooden stand which had been erected between the steps of University Hall, and by 5 o'clock the numbers had increased until the throng filled the Yard entirely, swelling back as far as the walls of Stoughton and Holworthy...
There was a hush of expectancy as President Eliot accepted the parchment and turned to address the waiting throng. Although his voice was not strong, and did not carry beyond the foremost ranks of the crowd, absolute silence reigned throughout...
...only opportunity the undergraduates and public will have of seeing President Eliot today will be when he appears before University Hall at about 5 o'clock this afternoon. The throng will gather before the platform, which has been placed between the steps of University Hall facing Harvard Hall, to honor the man who has been the leader of education in America for almost 60 years...