Word: overflowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nightmare, in which rail, telephone and mail service broke down almost completely. For one afternoon the city's means of communication with the outside world was by radio, which was swamped with more messages than it could handle. At Pasadena the Rose Bowl was threatened when a torrential overflow from Devil's Gate Dam was turned aside with sandbags. Sixty miles north of the city a sudden landslide crashed on and nearly buried a bus whose 26 passengers amazingly escaped injury. At Glendale, floodwaters and mud wrecked a $1,000,000 Government flood control project. Meanwhile...
...Shocked," "troubled," "stunned," "puzzled" were the adjectives used by the press in describing British reactions to the crisis. Popular, young (40) Anthony promptly went forth to address his constituents at Leamington. Some 1,300 pack-jammed the hall cheering, while an overflow meeting of 400 was arranged...
...town meeting was needed to make democracy work, he began in 1935 to put on a weekly town meeting demonstration in Town Hall for a nation-wide radio audience. Soon a good part of the U. S. population was listening to his verbal prize fights and Town Hall had overflow audiences. Some 700 groups have been formed in many a U. S. town to listen to Town Hall's programs and discuss them afterwards. To foster local town meetings all over the U. S.. the League for Political Education, changing its name to Town Hall, Inc., with Denny...
...associations, boards of education or other groups sponsor the performances, put them on in schools or rented halls. All this makes it possible to give children top-rank musical and dramatic shows at 10¢ to 25?. The companies play an average of five times a week, frequently to overflow audiences. In Gallipolis, Ohio (pop. 7,100) a ballet drew 1,500 children from all the countryside. In Hartford's (Conn.) Bushnell Memorial Auditorium last year 3,300 children filled every seat to hear an opera...
First test of U. S. response to Author Lehmann's literary career came last week when she appeared as speaker before the overflow audience which opened Manhattan's National Book Fair at Rockefeller Center. The audience begged Author Lehmann to sing...