Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cleveland, Oklahoma City, Washington and Houston, almost everyone agreed that the Mission was a real success. In Houston, for example, overflow meetings "reached all classes, especially important business executives," and one Methodist pastor "has had to add an extra Sunday service to take care of the crowds" since the Mission left. In Washington the drive was particularly valuable in rounding up churchgoers recently arrived from other cities...
...iron-fenced front yard, a brick-walled back yard. There are tall magnolias, myrtles, box, ivy, lots of flowers. Ellen's father, who was manager of the Confederacy's only heavy-calibre cannon foundry, bought No. 1 when his ten children (Ellen was the ninth) began to overflow their old home. It was then in the heart of fashionable Richmond...
Real-estate owners in Green Haven, N. Y. (pop. 38) found themselves on the verge of a boom that has nothing to do with defense. Reason: construction of a new $8,000,000 State prison (for Sing Sing overflow...
...gall bladder is a "pear-shaped sack . . . [which] hangs from the under surface of the liver like a droplight from a ceiling." The liver manufactures from 30 to 50 ounces of bile every day, and the overflow (up to one ounce) pours into the gall bladder. From this tank, as well as from the liver, the bile trickles into the small intestine, where it helps digest fats...
...fortress at Louisburg. From Nantasket, Mass, in 1746 set forth 4,000 colonists under Lieut. General William Pepperell to reduce this French threat to Anglo-Saxon supremacy in the northeast. It fell in a few weeks, was returned to France when King George's War (a Western Hemisphere overflow of Europe's War of the Austrian Succession) was settled. Ten years later Lord Jeffrey Amherst (hero of a famed college song) took it again with the help of famed Tactician Colonel James Wolfe, who died later in the storming of Quebec. Since then it has been British soil...