Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...waste from Cambridge, Watertown, Waltham, Newton, and parts of Boston to a treatment plant in Boston Harbor. But the trunk lines now operating are too small to handle all of the flow. So the MDC is forced to release the excess volume into the Charles through a number of overflow valves...
...amount of overflow is especially great after a rainstorm in the area. Most of the cities along the route do not have separate storm and waste sewer systems. Consequently, after a rain, the water run-off and the normal sewage combine to produce a large volume of flow, all of which must be fed into the MDC truck lines. The additional water requires the discharge of diluted sewage into the river through the overflow valves...
...plans now stand both the Governor and Howe will appear on November 4 before an overflow crowd in Sanders Theatre and the live television cameras of WGBH...
...will be hurt by the wind, in the topsyturvy economic world of production gluts nature has done what man has trouble doing. In the past few years, 200 million trees have been deliberately rooted up in Brazil and their beans burned, but 50 million surplus sacks of coffee still overflow the country's bulging warehouses. In the normal supply-and-demand world, a bad crop should make prices go up. But under the new quotas drawn up by the 48-nation International Coffee Council, Brazil can export no more than 18 million sacks a year, and has so much...
Clement Janequin's Four Chansons, which greeted the overflow audience after intermission, more than compensated for the Chamber Singers' early misfortunes, however. They were a quartet of jewels that would have enhanced any royal collection. Especially memorable was La Plus Bells de la Ville, a flirtatious ode to the prettiest girl in town. La Chante des Oyseaulx (Song of the Birds), a fantasy that includes imitations of bird sounds, was superb, shimmering with brilliant clusters of sound. Toutes les Nuictz was a translucent ruby, a deep and haunting love song. The Camerata Players also redeemed themselves in the Janequin with...