Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unpleasant. Many others are busy adding to the confusion. Not so Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, curly-headed, fat-cheeked, dynamic pastor of Manhattan's Park Avenue Baptist Church. Last week he made one of the direct, unequivocal remarks which distinguish him from so many divines, which make the overflow of his congregations willing to listen to him by radio in the basement of his church in order to earn admission to regular upstairs pews on the following Sunday (TIME...
...discreditable mediocrity and sheer futility of the issue, stands, as his verses have stood elsewhere, Mr. J. R. Agee's rendering of the Horation "Parcius junctas quatiunt fenestras" into first rate English poetry. His lines are at once instinct with poetic feeling and accurate as paraphrase. The stanza overflow is capably handled and the meter admirably suitable. It seems that wherever Mr. Ageo prints his work the level of the periodical is thereby raised, and it is with the pious wish that we mav hear more from him in these transalpine wastes that we conclude these catalogue of fatuities...
Apart from telegraphy, Newcomb Carlton has two hobbies. As the largest employer of boys in the world (15,000 youths in forest green deliver telegrams for Western Union), he is interested in boys. Ship models, his other hobby, overflow his summer home at Wood's Hole, Mass. His only son, Winslow Carlton, is a Senior at Harvard. Since 1914 Mr. Carlton has been President of Western Union. Recently The Daily Princetonian pulled a publicity stunt. It telegraphed many a prominent man asking: If you had only 24 more hours to live, what would you do with the time? Prepaid...
...whom have anything from coughs and colds to low-grade pneumonia. The infirmary will have accommodations for about 100 beds after arrangements for expansion which are now being made, have been completed. If the number runs over this among, about 35 more can be accommodated at the overflow infirmary on Quincy Street, Cambridge. Any more cases than these will have to be put elsewhere, in which case the Governing Board of the University would probably meet, and the possibility of closing the school might arise...
Radio listeners thrilled as the assassin said, "Madre Concepción was merely the final drop of water which caused the overflow of my cup of intention. She had no inkling that I was preparing for my mission...