Word: overflows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...film, there is an exquisite prologue; and to sketch this prologue is to sum up the spirit that runs through "Zwei Herzen." It is a summer's day in Vienna, and the year is 1830. In Franz Schubert's music room, all casements are open wide. Window-boxes overflow with flowers, and in the crooked street without, sunshine dapples the cobblestones. Schubert, at his harpsichord, looks up from his music, sees the world through the window, and finds it good. His fingers stray over yellow keys; they frame the melody of a little dance. Too gay a thing...
While her mother lay ill in her girlhood home at Meriden, Conn., Soprano Rosa Melba Ponselle gave a concert at Hartford. In the midst of "Home, Sweet Home" she broke down, fled weeping from the stage. Said Robert Kellogg, impresario: "It was the overflow of her vast emotional reservoir...
...Rindge Technical High School, and in the case of this pressing need, it might be possible that arrangements be made with this school so that part of its space could be used for these courses. Even the basements of Memorial Hall might be used to take care of the overflow temporally and until suitable quarters can be found; running water is already available there and more electric lights might be installed. Any of these solutions would, of course, be mere makeshifts to take care of the immediate necessity. When the University is out of its present financial difficulty, a separate...
...cheers and boat whistles. Miss England III, her engines sputtering now, slowed down miserably to 49.661 m. p. h. in the fifth lap, crossed the finish two miles behind Miss America X, She had a broken throttle at the carburetor on her starboard motor, a break in the overflow pipe for water circulation that shot water into the boat instead of over the side, caused Kaye Don to wonder if he had sprung a leak...
...last school year there were 22.135 students. During the previous year there were 21.982. This year the schools expect a proportionate increase. But there is not room now for all medical aspirants. Canada's 2,448 students last year included 308 U. S. citizens. The U. S. medical overflow sent 339 U. S. students and their fees into Great Britain (Scotland was very hospitable), 188 into Austria (a 50% increase over the previous year), 155 into Italy (100% increase), 183 into Germany (150% increase), 214 into Switzerland (230% increase). The American Medical Association, which keeps close...