Word: thronging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unusually restless, talkative throng of members in the National Association of Audubon Societies filed into a large room at the American Museum of Natural History last week for their 26th annual meeting. Instead of telling each other about the last oriole they had seen or how their new wren-houses were working out, they whispered over the backs of their chairs like politicians. They all knew that the policies of their president, Thomas Gilbert Pearson, were to be challenged by a small group of discontented members who had charged him with too great a friendship for wealthy sportsmen, too little...
...furor which Ignace Jan Paderewski created in the musical world of 1890 heralded a great artist. Today he fulfills the traditional threescore years and ten of human life. This seventieth birthday of a great pianist is not bounded by reminiscence. Boston would still throng the concert hall to hear Paderewski play...
...Nuremberg, Communists and Fascists (National Socialist Workers party) met for a debate which terminated in a free-for-all. Spectators amused themselves by pitching beer mugs and stones into the throng, injuring 70 contestants, among them three Fascist aldermen. Police charged and dispersed the rioters with truncheons and fire hose...
Some 700 eminent bacteriologists crowded into the smallish assembly hall of the Paris Pasteur Institute last week to attend the first International.Microbio-logical Congress. Elderly scientists who had not seen each other since before the War, pushed beaming through the throng for handclasps and greetings. Great names from text books and professional journals nodded acknowledgment to introductions: "Professor [Jules] Bordet, director of the Brussels Pasteur Institute . . . Professor [Pierre Paul Emile] Roux, director of this Paris Pasteur Institute. . . . That is Dr. [Richard] Pfeiffer of Berlin . . . Dr. [Georgef] Fontes, professor of medicine at the University of Strasbourg...
Speaking with visible weariness to an immense throng at Mainz, struggling to read his speech in a loud ringing voice which quavered now and then, Old Paul cried...