Word: overflowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening talk of the two day foreign affairs school, Edward s. Mason, Dean of the School of Public administration, told an overflow crowd that economic recovery in Europe will injure special interests within the United States economy, but a decline in European exports would be far more unfavorable to the U. S. on the whole. "The first year of E.R.P. has been relatively successful," he asserted...
...overflow crowd packed Kirkland Junior Common Room and gathered around loudspeakers in the courtyard and dining hall last night to hear Robert Frost give a reading of his poems...
...largest, outside of Milwaukee, but even so, the Times netted only $45,925 in 1947. (The Journal's earnings: $38,279.) Evjue decides which stories to play, and personally covers important legislative hearings. His signed editorials, dictated in a hoarse hog-call, frequently run on Page One; the overflow of his opinions fills a column ("Hello, Wisconsin"). A teetotaler, Evjue is a tireless foe of liquor and gamblers. A deer lover, he won't let his copy desk use "sportsman" in hunting stories (in the Times, a hunter is a hunter...
...returns in his office, while party workers stamped and whirled in a square dance downstairs. When the networks gave him time for a three-minute talk (which listeners expected to be his admission of defeat), Wallace cried: "The cup of iniquity of both the old parties will overflow and one or the other of the old parties will disappear." He exhorted his workers: "This crusade is going ahead with renewed vigor...
...case of an overflow crowd, Joan McPartlin '49, student government vice-president, will run an accessory pro and con discussion in the Agassiz House living room...