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Alumni returning for class reunions have "outgrown the Yard," according to Peter E. Pratt '40, director of alumni records, and the overflow crowd will be accommodated in the Houses this year for the first time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Returning Alumni To Stay At Houses for First Time | 6/7/1950 | See Source »

Eliot House will play host to the Class of 1915 as it marks its thirty-fifth reunion. In case the turnout is larger than the anticipated 300, the Law School dormitories will take care of the overflow. No students will be displaced from the Houses to make room for the incoming alumni...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Returning Alumni To Stay At Houses for First Time | 6/7/1950 | See Source »

Contralto Marian Anderson, appearing at London's Royal Albert Hall, had to turn away from the audience twice to sing to the 1,200 music lovers crowded on narrow benches in the organ gallery behind the stage. The overflow of fans had stood in line most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: A Ringing in the Ears | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

Outside the stadium, bleachers were set for the overflow crowd. As the lights beat down on the stage, Harry Truman spoke the ritualized words of political benediction over Scott Lucas ("fine work ... excellent manner in which he has measured up to that difficult task . . . entitled to gratitude of entire nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hired Man | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...summer, when the high snows melt, and when the desert lands gasp for moisture. In July a spectacular sheet of white water, a quarter of a mile wide, 17 feet thick and twice as high as Niagara, spills over the top of Grand Coulee Dam. In time, this overflow will be channeled off to irrigate half a million acres of desert without sacrificing one kilowatt of electrical output. Only then will the New Deal's resettlement dream come true, in the blossoming in the sagebrush of 12,800 one-family farms (to keep the farms small, the U.S. will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: Land of the Big Blue River | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

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