Word: overflow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...driven in a Government-owned Lincoln by a Secret Service agent to a tan town house across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. There, with a staff of eight, he sorts the 400 cartons of his papers that cram the three floors of the narrow building and overflow into another house next door...
Comet Flight. Excitement about the comet is not confined to scientists. Planetariums round the world are drawing overflow crowds for Kohoutek shows. Telescopes and binoculars are being sold at an exceptionally brisk pace; Edmund Scientific Co., of Barrington, N.J., reports a 200% gain this year in its sale of telescopes; Los Angeles' Marschutz Optical Co. is completely sold out. This week the Queen Elizabeth 2 sailed from New York, booked to the gunwales with 1,693 passengers on a three-day comet cruise. Before dawn every morning, passengers were invited to the decks for telescope viewing and comet lectures...
...services. Those students who leave the well-plowed environs of Harvard Square will note snow-clogged side streets for days after any storm. Cambridge citizens, and growing numbers of students and faculty, have fallen prey to a crime rate that ranks seventh among all cities in the nation. Sidewalks overflow with uncollected litter, and the efforts of conservation-minded groups to bundle newspapers for recycling are thwarted by the erratic "schedule" of trash collection. And a city that boasts more planners and designers per square inch than any other has proven incapable of halting the flight of industry, or even...
...industry this year; the best opportunity in years to get new, top-notch equipment at drastically reduced prices. The sales of recent weeks have been phenomenal and they are continuing. A lot of factors have led to the creation of this market, not the least of which is the overflow from the tremendous flood of new equipment models and accessory styles in the last few years...
...most afraid of getting into a tightly planned situation which makes a set of assumptions about space, and leaves no room for flexibility or overflow. We would not be getting as much of the kind of space we want," Duesenberry said last week...