Word: throng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great extent by means of the ubiquitous intramural handicap meets. With a fertile field of enthusiasts already engaged in this sport, there is no reason why the coming spring should not carry the individualism of the handicap meet and medal through to its logical conclusion of team development. The throng of not-quite-first-stringers that are carried along semi-officially through the season is particularly large in this sport, which alone among the five major athletic activities offers no second team places for these men. If circumstances prevent the formation of a Second Track Team, the men who would...
Their arrival at South Station was preceded by a throng of reporters, anxious to interview the unusual arrival. The snake, however, was not put on exhibition for fear of the cold, but was rushed immediately to the Museum. There he will be carefully entertained as is the custom with visiting snakes...
...Meeting House of the Society of Friends in the capital, and there Mr. & Mrs. Hoover attend service. Its capacity is about 200 people, and the Friends were wondering how best to stretch the walls. With or without circulars to the scientifically minded, they foresaw that crowds would throng to their door each "First Day" of the next four years, when President & First Lady attend...
...meticulous exactitude Socialist Scheidemann writes that he was eating a bowl of "thin 1918 soup" in the Reichstag Restaurant when members of his party plunged in, grabbed him by the arm, and declared that he must appear on a balcony of the Reichstag to address a large, incipiently revolutionary throng...
...remained, or became, as the case may be, a Republican. And he went to Boston in his old clothes and several busses, and down the streets which know him, perhaps, in the soberer black and white of evening, dress he flung roses and other things riotously with the throng to the greater glory of a Presidential candidate...