Word: overflowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tower Theater in downtown Atlanta, an overflow crowd spilled into the orchestra pit, backed up into the aisles; outside, latecomers shoved at the doors. The show had barely got underway when the night was rent by keening sirens, and fire engines roared to the theater entrance...
Since all House must now also accommodate their share of the overflow that normally would be in Claverly--205 men this spring--a popular house might get a disproportionate number of first-choices, Watson explained. For example, Lowell has 136 vacancies, but with the added share of overflow, 29 men, its total would...
...thousand Kukes to be at a railroad siding at dawn for shipment in trucks to the reserves; but another official delivers only sufficient trucks for 300 people. The farmers who have been told to deliver the Kukes at the railroad siding are then left to dispose of the 700 overflow as best they can. Nobody so far has seriously faced up to the position that will soon exist, when there are more Kikuyu in the reserves than the reserves can possibly feed; one district commissioner openly prophesies famine in his area this year...
Claverly Hall will be divided into sections next fall, with each house having an "entry" to accommodate its overflow, associate Dean Watson, secretary of the Committee on Houses, announced yesterday...
...Overflow crowds are expected at New Lecture Hall when two diametrically opposed sides of the question "Should Universities be Investigated?" clash at 8 p., tonight...