Word: overloaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joan Davis is the daughter of a St. Paul train dispatcher. At nine her voice was already strained from an amateur overload of singing, reciting, quipping. When her parents moved to Los Angeles, Joan signed for three years on the Pantages vaudeville circuit. Her partner (in a vaudeville act of unalloyed corn) was Si Wills, who soon became her husband. Quitting the road in 1936, Wills & Davis settled in Hollywood. In the next six years Joan graduated from cinema bit parts to featured parts...
...only do we have to produce enough planes, tanks, and guns to win in every theater of the battle, but we have to redirect the thinking of the American people onto the road from which it strayed after the first world war. This does not mean that we must overload them with detailed plans for a reconstructed League of Nations, a federation of the Danube Valley, a partitioned Germany, or any such specific and controversial blueprint. Let the wise men squabble over that...
...more. Taken to a dark laboratory, the animals turned green, then turned red again not only on exposure to light but to heat. Reason: migration of a red pigment between the animal's interior and its surfaces. Its purpose: to protect the chlorophyll granules from an overload of light, which would destroy the pigment. Besides making food like plants, Euglenae also can eat like animals...
...Spring Offensive. One, Squadron 992, takes a balloon-barrage crew through its organization and training to its ultimate destination in Scotland to protect the Firth of Forth Bridge. Another, Village School, is a heart-warming account of a day in the life of a country schoolteacher plagued with an overload of local and evacuee pupils...