Word: overflowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four thousand sympathetic, plushy, perspiring people filled the hall, but did not overflow it. They heard and applauded MRA messages from bigwigs, MRA testimonials from Groupers. They gave their greatest applause to Grouper "Bunny'' Austin, British tennis star, and accepted calmly enough the one message which made headlines. For the meeting, Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote: "A program of Moral Re-Armament cannot fail . . . to lessen the danger of armed conflict. Such Moral Re-Armament, to be most highly effective, must receive support on a world-wide basis...
...problem of dealing with the annual overflow of men who cannot get into Houses is a recent one; in the early years of the Houses it was found impossible to fill all the rooms. But the increasing popularity of the Houses and a growing College enrollment has caused an acute situation in the past few years. It is estimated that an average of 260 men are dented admission to the Houses each year...
...room, the gift of Harry Harkness Flagler, nephew of Edward Harkness, and Standard Oil executive, is expected to care for the large overflow of poetry material now in the library, and also to provide a place in which recordings of the works of modern poets can be heard without disturbing those wanting to read...
...animators are the great stars; they infuse life and movement into Disney's pictures," Field told the overflow audience. "Communal and anonymous, their work is directly in line with that of the great masters...
...Council restricted itself to the overflow problem, and will investigate the whole question of admissions to the Houses later this year...