Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moderns." Inside, the Hall of Art is as self-consciously informal as a summer-art-colony show. Overflow canvases are stacked on the floor against the walls. Most of them are picturesque landscapes, seascapes, cottage scenes; still lifes of the flowers-and-carafe school, and a scattering of nudes and portraits. There are almost no "moderns." For one remarkable aspect of Pochapin's achievement is the fact that he has found a market for scads of hithero unsalable, solid, conservative U.S. paintings...
...fall. They include everything from Apprentice Seamen in the V-12 unit to high ranking Army officers in Overseas Administration ration. And then there are two branch units in Harvard's neighboring girl schools; Radcliffe with its well-established contingent of WAVES and Wellesley, with a group of overflow students from the Navy Supply Corps due to disembark on the Wellesley hills in October...
...Detroit hotel room, Wallace predicted: if control of the Democratic Party becomes a struggle between the "progressive element" and the conservatives, "I am confident the people will take care of that." Next day, the gangling, shy Vice President mounted the platform at the Michigan State Fair Grounds before an overflow crowd of 15,000. First he paid a curiously qualified tribute to Franklin Roosevelt...
Registered agent for 122 of these corporations is Lawyer Large, former county judge. Most meetings are held in his mahogany-paneled office on Flemington's Main Street. Overflow sessions are held in the Women's Club or in the Grange Hall, where Ladies of the Grange stuff stockholders with country fried chicken...
...Berg's agent posed a special problem for the university to solve. Mrs. Berg has written 3,640 scripts (about six million words) for The Goldbergs. They are mimeographed, therefore bulky. Wrote her agent to Princeton: "If we continue to send you daily scripts the archives will overflow. Perhaps one representative script per week will serve...