Word: overflowing
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...Committee has considered holding a dance upstairs at the same time that the movie is going on in the dining room to take care of any overflow crowd...
Carl R. Rogers, noted clinical psychologist, called for a revolution of teaching methods in a speech to overflow crowds in Lowell Lecture Hall and Burr A last night...
...Metropolitan District Commission, the result of the merger of the MSD and some other area authorities, has almost completed a 20-year, $105 million project to eliminate pollution from Boston Harbor and the overflow pollution of the Charles River. The MDC has replaced the interceptors with huge new sewers which will prevent all sudden overflows into the river. Sewage will be carried to an underground chamber on Magazine Beach near B.U. Bridge. Here the stormwater will be retained and chlorinated and then discharged into the river. The rest of the sewage flow will continue through the Boston Main Drainage Tunnel...
...water river. In 1908, the Charles River Dam was built near the present site of the Museum of Science, and the eight-and-a-half mile long, 300 million gallon capacity Charles River Basin was created. The fresh water basin could have absorbed and treated "naturally" the storm water overflow sewage...
...principle, which means that when tides are unusually high the dam cannot be opened to discharge excess river water for fear of a back-rush of salt water. During a heavy storm, when tides are high and the river is full, there is a chance that the Charles would overflow its banks in the M.I.T. Back Bay area...