Word: overflows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...belligerent attitude of husbands. He is amused by train rides and Gideon bibles, by hostesses who meet him at trains and by after-dinner bores. He is amused by cynics and by bellhops and by Mrs. Roosevelt. With a never-failing geniality he allows his own private amusement to overflow for the benefit of his readers...
...trustee of evolutionary progress," Julian Huxley, distinguished British scientist, said in his talk to a near overflow crowd at the New Lecture Hall last night...
...centers of resistance. Twenty thousand Chetniks (Serb revolutionaries) held the hills of their country, blew up strategic railways. In Norway mass arrests continued all week. Each dawn Gestapo trucks routed out sleepy citizens, took them to prisons already full to bursting. Courtrooms and reform schools were commandeered for the overflow...
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...