Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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New Yorkers are proud of almost everything but their schools. They know that most of these are nothing to brag about: often dingy and dilapidated, the teachers underpaid and overworked, the classrooms overcrowded and dirty. New Yorkers have suspected that the city's worst schools are in the costive...
As usual, at this time of year, our correspondents overseas have been exchanging the season's greetings with us here at home and relating their plans for celebrating Christmas. From his post in poverty-stricken, overcrowded Shanghai, Bureau Chief William Gray cabled:
¶ Since 1940, the population of the U.S. has increased almost 10%, now stands at 144,708,000, according to a Census Bureau estimate. The overcrowded New York-New Jersey-Connecticut metropolitan area hit a record high of 13,580,000.
So many ex-G.I.s have been joining the Trappists that the Abbey at Valley Falls is overcrowded. The order has bought an 800-acre valley ranch in northern New Mexico, announced the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Clarence Schoeppner, chancellor of the archdiocese of Santa Fe. Two Trappists would take formal...
Ducey commented that in spite of the heavy Radcliffe protest over seating arrangements, it was only in a few overcrowded classes that the situation was really acute. "Some monitors had already met the problem themselves," he said, adding that the others "were pretty able fellows" and would doubtless find the...