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...then. She had been planning on it from the age of twelve. As Betty Perske, she announced to a classmate in New York, "I am going to Hollywood." Her high school yearbook lyrically cited her ambitions: "Popular ways that win/ May your dreams of becoming an actress/ Overflow the brim...
...vote came none too soon. Groaning under the weight of 44 million manuscripts, books, prints and other material, and faced with an annual increase of a million items, the library has had to stack its hoard in the offices and passages of its two existing buildings and consign the overflow to such makeshift extensions as a former aircraft paint hangar in Middle River, Md., 50 miles from the capital...
...afternoon, an overflow crowd of college officials, heard a panel including two University members, Clark Byse, professor of Law, and Dennis Shaul a third year student at the Law School discuss the student's legal rights...
...major problems that river side communities face is eliminating sewer lines that carry both rain water and waste material. During storms, these lines often overflow and carry untreated sewage into the Charles...
...platform scale, and whose family built the invention into the Fairbanks scale works, made the standard trip to Europe, returning with the usual milky-white copies of classics. Back home, he acquired works by the then-in-vogue Hudson River School painters, built the gallery to house the overflow. Fairbanks' most handsome purchase was Albert Bierstadt's Domes of the Yosemite. The San Francisco Call la mented at the time that the painting "is now doomed to the seclusion of a Ver mont town where it will astonish the na tives." It would have easily astonished sophisticated...