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Word: overflowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Betting at the fights, say the authorities, runs to seven figures a year and purses of $5,000 are common. At a raid in El Centre last year, S.P.C.A. men found one bookie stuffing the stake on a single) bout into a 50-lb. nail keg and ramming the overflow down into the keg with his foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mean Kind of Sport | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...March 30, after a white-tie dinner for the Trumans and a few others, M. Auriol will give a reception to which he, as an old parliamentarian himself, plans to invite every member of the Senate and the House. To handle the overflow, the embassy is putting up a large green and white tent, with a wooden floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Preparations for a Journey | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...applies can expect to be taken into one of the Houses next fall, Associate Dean Robert B. Watson '37 announced yesterday. As a result, the University next year plans to close down Claverly, Apley and the fifth floor of Dudley, which in the past have accommodated the housing overflow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses Will Get All '54; Apley, Claverly Closing | 3/16/1951 | See Source »

...outhouses"--Claverly, Apley, and Dudley--will likely be put in moth balls first, since they are expensive, hard to maintain and unpopular with students. They are now used for the sophomore overflow from the Houses, and for those expelled from the Houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Draft To Shut Out-of-Yard Quarters First | 2/28/1951 | See Source »

...Overflow crowds at Emerson were told at 3:20 p.m. by Lowell P. Beveridge '52, president of the left-wing group, that Robeson would begin his talk on "The Liberation of the American Negro" at 4:45. The Progressives had been told that the plane would arrive at 4:10, but there was no such flight, only one scheduled to arrive...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: Late Plane Keeps Robeson Away; Singer States Beliefs | 2/17/1951 | See Source »

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