Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...population growth were correct: "I computed last night that if Adam and Eve started this game about 4000 B.C. and had been reasonably fertile, if we had had a 10% increase per generation, we would now have-unless my slide rule slipped-a population as densely packed as this auditorium, leaving out the aisles. It would cover the entire earth, deserts and oceans 15 layers deep. Those who would be allocated the desert would be very much distressed, those allocated to the oceans would...
...audience in San Francisco's huge, hangarlike Civic Auditorium was in fine fettle. Even Master of Ceremonies John Charles Thomas couldn't resist getting into the act. "I'm glad to see such a crowd," he roared. "Word must have got around that I won't sing tonight...
...official United States Marine Corps band entertained the packed auditorium with a program of British music for a half-hour before the speeches. As Churchill's party entered, the bank struck up "Rule Britannia" and followed this with the British National Anthem...
...auditorium itself was patrolled by several hundred State and local police, as well as secret servicemen and Scotland Yard agents...
Professor William A. Robson, professor of public Administration at the London School of Economics and Political Science, will speak on the subject of "Recent Developments in Local Government in Great Britain" in the Litauer Auditorium at 8 p.m. tomorrow night...