Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about six feet of her downspout up so the rainwater runs into a washtub that sets on a barrel, and if there is a light shower she invariably gets enough in the tub to do a washing, but a heavy downpour will not only fill the tub but will overflow and fill the barrel. . . . With the downspout lifted, her supply is ample although she has some trouble getting the washtub, when it is full, down off the barrel. 'I slop out a lot,' says Lena." "Somebody Loses." The characters in Chet Shafer's guileless anthology are seldom...
...undergraduate housing, however, a short term crisis is foreseen by Robert B. Watson '37, associate dean of the College, but with the top floor of the Indoor Athletic Building being readied to receive any possible overflow, all new registrants will be housed, he said. A break in the number of applications rolling into the Office has made the College housing picture considerably brighter...
...Madama Butterfly at the Met or Eugen Onegin at the City Center in its first New York performance in eleven years. If they wanted symphony, they could hear their own Philharmonic-with Violinist Mischa Elman-at Carnegie Hall, or hear Serge Koussevitsky's famed Boston Symphony, playing an "overflow" concert, one of four performances the Bostonians played in New York last week...
...University has made none of its usual appeal for attendance monitors, but the cause was merely an overflow of volunteers rather than doubt about the present system, said Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28 last night...
...founded in 1821 by John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun and Charles Bulfinch, architect of the Capitol. Its most famed minister: Edward Everett Hale. If the size of the congregation is a gauge, Davies has proved a powerful successor; almost overnight he brought about its present overflow. His explanation of his success...