Word: overcrowdedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
New Patients. Two events (unforeseen by Smollett) changed Bath. One was a series of German "Baedeker" air raids, aimed at Britain's historical landmarks, which damaged or destroyed 19,000 buildings in Bath, and made the town overcrowded again. The other was the advent of Britain's Labor...
Skills First. Chicago School Superintendent Herold C. Hunt, who thinks Campbell and Dunbar are "amazing," has promised them a new building within three years. Meanwhile overcrowded Dunbar, built to handle only 375 students, makes do with a Hooverville of temporary wooden buildings-and three shifts. Cliff Campbell is the first...
Fort Devens College was only meant to be a makeshift. It had been hastily put together in 1946 at a former Army post to handle Massachusetts veterans who couldn't get into other overcrowded colleges. In its heyday last fall it had an enrollment of 1,750' students...
They met in Ohio's gloomy, overcrowded Mansfield Reformatory. After they were paroled, they joined forces, accumulated an arsenal and stole a 1947 Pontiac.
Princeton's new $6,000,000, six-story Firestone Memorial Library would be the world's largest open-stack collection: anybody could get at the books by just walking to the shelf. All Librarian Julian P. Boyd had to do was move in the 800,000 books, waiting...