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Because of the increased enrollment in the Freshman class this year, Apley Court, for years an overflow dormitory for all four classes, has been made a Freshman hall along with Walker and Farlow Houses, the only other Freshman dormitories outside the Yard...
...meeting, organized by the Fight for Freedom Committee, and held in Chicago's Orchestra Hall on a sweltering night, drew an overflow crowd of 3,000. Nominally called to support Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy, the meeting centered its fire almost exclusively on the Tribune. Not since 1936 election-night crowds burned Tribunes in the middle of State Street and rotten-egged the Tribune building had Chicagoans erupted in such hot anti-Tribune wrath...
...Cleveland, Oklahoma City, Washington and Houston, almost everyone agreed that the Mission was a real success. In Houston, for example, overflow meetings "reached all classes, especially important business executives," and one Methodist pastor "has had to add an extra Sunday service to take care of the crowds" since the Mission left. In Washington the drive was particularly valuable in rounding up churchgoers recently arrived from other cities...
...iron-fenced front yard, a brick-walled back yard. There are tall magnolias, myrtles, box, ivy, lots of flowers. Ellen's father, who was manager of the Confederacy's only heavy-calibre cannon foundry, bought No. 1 when his ten children (Ellen was the ninth) began to overflow their old home. It was then in the heart of fashionable Richmond...
Real-estate owners in Green Haven, N. Y. (pop. 38) found themselves on the verge of a boom that has nothing to do with defense. Reason: construction of a new $8,000,000 State prison (for Sing Sing overflow...