Word: overflowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nobody knows," answered Colonel Charles R. Apted, Superintendent of Care-Takers, when asked where the water is coming from. "It may be escaping from a broken, or discarded main; it may be the overflow from one of the numerous springs in this vicinity; or it may be simply underground water draining down to the Charles. But we expect shortly to get to the truth of the matter...
...Canada's station CFRB two Sundays ago, sounded the brusque, heavy voice of Rev. Dr. Thomas Todhunter Shields, 61-year-old Toronto Baptist. With reforming Fundamentalist fervor he was preaching to 2,500 people who crammed old Jarvis Street Baptist Church, and to 5,000 more in overflow meetings. Dr. Shields lashed out at the "liquor traffic," flayed the Premier of Ontario, kinetic young Mitchell F. Hepburn, who took office last July when beer and wine became legal after 18 years of Prohibition. Cried Dr. Shields: "We need to rally our forces. . . . The preachers will have to get into overalls...
...will submit tamely to the closing or restriction of her markets in the British Empire is a Utopian dream. Retaliation will occur which may well take the form of an intensified effort to cultivate Chine still more assiduously than in the past as Japan's special province for her overflow of goods. The existence of Japan, like England, depends absolutely on the maintenance of here expert market; but whereas England has the Empire in which to trade advantageously, Japan's markets, with the exemption of Chine, are all under the control of her principal adversaries, potential and real, and Chine...
When he had finished the President went to another hall where an overflow audience had heard him only by amplifiers. To them he said: "I'll tell you a secret. It is the longest speech I have made in all the past year. I said what I believe...
...detect in your Letters Supplement a very, very sly move indeed? Having become one of the most influential publications in the U. S., are you now beginning to feel the need of an editorial page, and inventing an "overflow of comment, correction, controversy, and information" in which, by careful selection and arrangement of the letters printed, you can guide readers' thoughts? I had always valued TIME precisely because of its pristine lack of bias. Don't tell me that now, swelled with the sense of power which your more than 450,000 readers give you, you are planning...