Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Each school day about 20 children, ages five to twelve, bound up the steps of an old brownstone in Chicago's rundown Garfield Park area. They settle quietly in a small classroom crowded with battered desks. Maps and vocabulary lists festoon the walls; books overflow the corners. At 9 o'clock sharp, the tall, no-nonsense teacher begins to stride up and down the rows. "What did Socrates say?" she questions. "The uneducated man is like a leaf blown from here to there, believing whatever he is told," chorus the children. "What did Marcus Aurelius tell...
...overflow crowd including several professors from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) attended a meeting yesterday at the National Insitutes of Health (NIH) headquarters to consider relaxing guidelines for recombinant DNA research...
...panel of five Harvard professors and administrators last night discussed the central issues of the Bakke case and its implications before an overflow audience of roughly 450 people in Science Center...
...with considerable courage, 1,700 people signed a petition asking the regime to reopen one of Gorky's 100 or so closed churches; many are now in use as bakeries, museums or warehouses. According to the petition, the Gorky churches are so crowded on Sundays that their congregations overflow onto the streets and old people faint in the crush...
Western governments should press the Soviet Union to respond to President Carter's human rights declaration while they continue to open up trade relations. Leonid Plyushch, a Ukrainian mathematician and Soviet dissident, told an overflow crowd at Boylston Hall Auditorium last night...