Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late nineteenth century, the number if books in Harvard's library was estimated to double every 20 years, and a cry was raised for a larger building to supplant overflowing Gore Hall. The total of books has quadrupled in the past 40 years, but the need now is for a smaller building--not so much to house the overflow, but to arrange the existing collection for the greater convenience of students...
...taken their wives with them to college. Dartmouth plans to build a village of 50 prefabricated houses to hold the 100 new couples expected next March. Overcrowded University of Colorado is refusing admission to all out-of-staters but G.I.s. The University of Vermont has lodged some of its overflow in the Army's Fort Ethan Allen. The University of Michigan has set up a prefabricated "vet's village." Wisconsin's "Vetsburg" is a thriving town of trailers. Some 50 other campuses have trailer colonies housing from 100 to 400 couples. Unmarried students at Indiana University sleep...
After two years of famine, Florida was all set for the biggest horse racing jamboree in its history. Tents had to be pitched to stable the overflow of horses; enough jockeys were on hand to stock two race tracks; the tourist stampede had begun. The picture looked beautiful...
Definite room assignments will probably be made by October1, and if there is an overflow, McKinlock Hall, closed to civilians since the spring of 1943, will be used, according to a statement by Dean Hanford yesterday...
Later Laski lectured to overflow classes at Yale. He became a full professor of political science at the London School of Economics, where he stayed for 25 years without getting into major trouble (except in 1934, when he lectured in Moscow and pictured a hypothetical British Labor victory, followed by a financial crisis, a Conservative reaction, suspension of the "Constitution," and chaos culminating in the "hope of revolution...