Word: thronging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Just 25 miles short of the goal, at 12 minutes past the 26th hour, the Wasp motor gasped for gas. Endres landed the plane in a rough field, damaging the undercarriage and propeller. Thence another ship whisked the flyers to Budapest's Matjasfoeld airdrome where, amid a great throng, waited Premier Stephen Bethlen & Cabinet, U. S. Minister Nicholas Roosevelt and Backer Szalay who had arrived from the U. S. a few days earlier with Endres' wife and small son; and Capt. Magyar's mother, an aged villager who had not seen her son for five years...
...Vatican printshop last fortnight went a long document entitled Quadragesima Anno ("In the 40th Year"). To the world Press and to a throng of the faithful assembled last week at the Vatican for the occasion was handed another long document, an official resume of Quadragesima Anno, Pius XI's encyclical on the social and industrial world of today, amplifying and interpreting Leo XIII's. Finally, a throne and microphone of gold and silver were set up in the Courtyard of St. Damascus and the Pope came forth in person to address the workers and employers of the world...
Witnessed by a throng of over 500 people the annual Lampoon-Princeton Tiger baseball classic took place Saturday on one of the more obscure baseball diamonds at old Nassau. Lampy, with his customary modesty, declared the game tied 21 to 21 at the end of approximately the fourth inning, when the encounter was called off. Corey Ford, well known humorous writer for Life and Judge, happened up from New York to referee the event. Later the Lampoon humorists were entertained with dinner at a hotel in Trenton...
...uneven peregrinations up and down the cribbage board of pre-War Russia you are made aware of the extent of the scene, the background vastness of Russian life. Clim never wanders far from Moscow nor from his self-interested, skeptical observer's viewpoint, but the scores of characters that throng the story come from many outskirts, are of every tinge of political conviction, agnosticism or despair. Clim's history winds through real events, from the coronation of the late Tsar through the Russo-Japanese War to the Bloody Sunday (Jan. 22, 1905) in St. Petersburg?the dress-rehearsal...
...Vive le Roil Vive la France!" cried a throng of French and Brazilian Royalists, some of them poor people who had come all the way to Palermo at great personal sacrifice. "Vive le Dauphin! Vive la Princesse...