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Word: overflow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over 10,000 children flocked to the 34 Freedom Schools set up for the day by civil rights leaders. Several thousand had to be bused to hastily established "overflow schools," as the 27 original schools were jammed to capacity and spilled over onto the streets...

Author: By Ellen Lake, | Title: 20,000 Pupils Stay Out of Class; Boston Freedom Schools Overflow | 2/27/1964 | See Source »

...House becomes cavernous and impersonal; below it, a House may face unmanageable administrative costs. The Tenth House Committee should aim for a maximum as close to this "ideal" as financial pressures permit. If the Tenth House is designed solely to minimize crowding in the old Houses, the present student overflow would completely fill it, leaving no room for expansion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sockets and Philosophy | 2/19/1964 | See Source »

...Latin American studies should be made an available "major" for undergraduates, with the academic machinery of tutors, courses, and requirements that this implies. Many University officials have long been content to predict that this "will come eventually." Every overflow meeting on Latin America testifies that undergraduates want an adequate program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Poverty of L.A. Studies | 2/12/1964 | See Source »

...held both as a protest to Alabama's Gov. George C. Wallace, who speaks at Sanders Theatre 8:30 Monday evening, and as a windup to Vellucci's campaign for city councillor. He has now relocated the Monday rally to East Cambridge, where he expects "to have an overflow crowd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Councillor Vellucci Cancels Plans To Hold Freedom Square Protest | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

After wandering through the over-whelming, overcrowded front rooms, the visitor suddenly discovers the Venetian court in the center of the museum. This court seems to overflow with flowers--the orchids which fill one corner reach into the adjoining corridor. The museum's own greenhouse supplies flowers for special seasonal arrangements: the courtyard glows with poinsettas at Christmas, bursts with lilies at Easter. The court seems more peaceful than the rest of the museum: its walks are symetrical and its walls rise gracefully to a sky-light...

Author: By Heather J. Dubrow, | Title: Mrs. Gardner's Museum Graces the Fenway | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

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