Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the three regular meetings of the Athletic Association have been so successfully completed, while only the encore or overflow meeting of Monday evening remains to be held, it is fitting that the thanks of the college should be extended to the energetic managers of the association for their untiring efforts to secure success. This success of itself might indeed be considered by themselves a sufficient reward, but an expression of thanks from the college is a duty it owes to itself and to them. Thanks must also be given to all those who have contributed to this success...
...overflow of the Mississippi is much more serious than at first thought. Fifty thousand people are destitute, and $100,000 has been appropriated for the alleviation of their suffering...
...overflow of the Mississippi river is doing much injury...
There has been a big break in the levee at Concordia, Ark., and a damaging overflow, with some loss of life...
...hundred families have been driven from their houses in Nashville, Tenn., by the overflow of the Cumberland river...