Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Overflow crowds at the Activities meeting aat Phillips Brooks House last night required two consecutive talks by each of the speakers representing various extra-curricular activities...
Well aware of the overcrowding of U.S. colleges, New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey had forehandedly set up three emergency colleges on abandoned Army & Navy sites to help handle the overflow.* And by last week the Associated Colleges of Upper New York had a faculty of 225 all signed up. The question was: would the faculty members have enough students to keep them busy...
That was a typical day last week at the Veterans Administration's New York mental-hygiene clinic, which the VA thinks is the world's largest. Just three months old, it already has 2,000 psychoneurotic patients, with an overflow of 1,500 more farmed out to private clinics and hospitals. Some 50 new patients turn up daily. One of 30 VA mental clinics recently set up throughout the U.S., it will soon be joined by 70 more...
O.P.A. or no O.P.A., the consumer will be doing the right thing by himself and his fellows by out waiting those who stop the flood of production from irrigating the country's dry economy. If you wait long enough the dam will have to overflow. If you have a choice, do not buy. More and better will be had for less within a year. Even the N.A.M. says...
...multitudes on holidays. . . . The parish letters to the faithful, which are the leaders on the front pages of the newspapers, solemnly declare that the Soviet Union is the most blessed nation in the world because it has embraced the one and only true faith, and that the future will overflow with love, joy and singing...