Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side; Gary Cooper, who chewed gum and stood with his hands in his pockets; Fred Astaire, who blushed when she spoke to him; Producer David Selznick's wife Irene and Orson Welles, who gazed gravely and long (see cut). In Hollywood Mme. Chiang spoke to an overflow crowd at the Hollywood Bowl, held what may be her last press conference in the U.S., then headed back east...
Buck up, laddies. Life to still worth while. The class book will go to press in a week or so with YOUR snapshots in it and one hundred fifty (Count 'om! One hundred fifty!) new WAVES will overflow into Cambridge before you've had a chance to forget your April Foel's Day Jokes...
Over 1200 applications have been received for the Valedictory Service, making it definite that an overflow meeting will have to be held in Sanders Theatre...
...from the Scriptures. Dean Willard L. Sperry of the Divinity School will conduct the service, which will be introduced by an academic procession of all undergraduates, military and naval officers, University dignitaries, and local city officials. The R.O.T.C. units will march in uniform. If necessary, there will be an overflow gathering in Sanders Theatre, where guests will participate fully in the service...
...Kennedy had to wade in on the neglected teeth of Nome and hundreds of miles around, deal on the spot with cases which any ordinary dentist at home would refer to a specialist. When dentistry was over for the day (often around midnight), overflow guests of the crowded hotel often slept on beds made up in the anteroom. Dr. Kennedy's prices were fairly high-$20 for an inlay-but not high as Alaska prices went: coal was $40 a ton, Coca-Cola 25? a bottle (when it could be had), watermelons $6 each...