Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...band playing A Do, Do, Dewey Day, written to a Nebraska University tune. That afternoon it rained. The Dewey address, scheduled to be made at the Drake University Stadium (capacity 30,000), had to be moved inside the Drake Field House (capacity 9,500). He spoke to an overflow audience...
...October 2, when the Crimson meets Columbia. Previously, Harvard men who wanted to bring dates had to turn in their single tickets in the cheering sections (sections 33 and 34) for a pair of tickets either in section 35, 36, or 37 or in the colonnade (now marked for overflow freshmen ad graduate students). This year, for the first time, Harvard undergraduates, with or without female companions, will be seated according to their academic class. The above diagram is HAA director William J. Bingham's best guess as to how the new seating plan will work...
...class sections run up only to row PP. Rows QQ to ZZ are in the colonnade, where yard-thick pillars block large parts of the playing field from view. So the colonnade has been left to overflow freshmen and graduate students...
Both the commuting and married-student changes were anticipated in the overall housing picture, Watson explained, but the extra Freshmen now make both factors vital inasmuch as their rooms would, in the past two years, have been available for the overflow newcomers...
...Amazon basin there are three types of rivers-yellow, white and black. Only the yellow rivers (actually a tawny brown) have fertile valleys. The yellow rivers, of which the Amazon proper is the best example, carry silt, and when they overflow, leave rich deposits on the land. The black rivers are stagnant and so acid that even fish cannot live in them. The white rivers have ceased to serve as anything but drainage canals. Tropic downpours have long since washed away all fertility from their valleys...