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Word: overflow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harold J. Laski returned to a Harvard auditorium last night, in one of his few appearances at the University since he left under strained circumstances in 1921, to deliver a strong plea for trade union socialism. He addressed an overflow crowd at Sanders Theater in the last Law School forum of the year...

Author: By Albert J. Feldman, | Title: Laski Urges American Socialistic Labor Party | 4/27/1949 | See Source »

...overflow audience is expected to turn out to hear Harold J. Laski, professor at the London School of Economics and a member of the National Committee of the British Labor Party, speak on "The Role of Labor Unions in Politics" in the term's final Law School Forum tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laski to Speak on Labor in Politics | 4/26/1949 | See Source »

...Folger's players, who had to use the Folger's boiler room as overflow dressing quarters, were The Masquers of Amherst College, alma mater of the library's late founder, Oil Millionaire Henry Clay Folger. As a London director of 1600 would have it, they performed without sets, in frilly Elizabethan costumes instead of Roman togas. One non-authentic touch: girls were cast in the two feminine roles. The program explained: "We have somehow lost the knack of training juveniles to play female parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Revival in Washington | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Because of the post-war overflow of students, the Law School has been operating on an accelerated schedule since 1945, awarding degrees in February, June, and September. Before the war, awards were made only in June. The recent February class was the next to last one graduating on the accelerated schedule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School Awards 231 Midyear LL. D.'s | 2/23/1949 | See Source »

...newly-named Morris Gray lecturer will be the second poet to appear at the College this year. Last month Robert Frost recited some of his poems and regaled his overflow audience at Kirkland House with his comments on the Kinsey Report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eberhart Will Present Gray Fund Lecture | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

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