Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Builder Frank Crowe's 19th dam is the world's second biggest concrete structure (biggest: Grand Coulee Dam). Shasta is the highest overflow-type dam in the world (602 ft.). It is also California's tallest structure. When Shasta's reservoir fills (probably in 1946), water pouring over the center spillway will fall three times as far as Niagara. For California, Shasta Dam will...
...crowd which jammed the sedate portals of Chicago's Art Institute one evening last week caused the Chicago Daily News to headline: HELP! POLICE! ART EXHIBITION CALLS OUT COPS ! The headline was strictly factual: firemen as well as police were summoned to handle the overflow throng. What 6,500 art-lovers had come to see was the first comprehensive U.S. exhibition of the work of a 31-years-dead Mexican who has been called the greatest popular artist North America has ever produced. Few in the U.S. have ever heard of José Guadalupe Posada, "printmaker to the Mexican...
...plugs, this has a numbered keyboard like an adding machine. The message goes to the mechanical brain, called a "marker," which hunts out an available trunk line, tests a path to the destination and electrically sets up all connections-all within one second. If all lines are busy, overflow calls are stacked up in a special circuit and put through in order of priority as soon as lines are free. The marker has a trouble indicator which, on bungled calls, reports where & what the trouble...
...Record. It was the coldest night of the fall season. A mean wind chilled an audience that failed by 200 to fill the opera house (capacity: 3,500) of St. Louis' Municipal Auditorium. The loudspeakers set up to blare the speech to an expected overflow crowd in the square outside were not needed. Willkie's delivery, awkward in 1940, turned out to be only slightly improved. And he had to race through his speech to squeeze it into a 30-minute national hookup, holding up his hand to silence applause. He still had nine paragraphs to go when...
...dance. Rosita's statuesque loveliness captured the "imagination" of the Dog Baker-weary multitude no end, and Lt. (jg) P. L. Geibel, the tactics man, was besieged with requests for new instructions on solving the gm line. At about that time, however, the capacitance was about to overflow its square root and everybody went home...