Word: overspread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Control center of the computator is a 60-foot plastic wall, overspread with instruments, dials, and bulbs. Behind the panel lies 3000 square feet of steel framework, housing the multi-colored units which store and operate on the numbers...
...weeks, over many miles of the U.S., there had been almost ceaseless rain. (In Chicago, 16 days out of May's first 19 dripped.) The monstrously gorged rivers-the Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Wabash, Osage, White, many others-roared like millraces, rose until they overspread their banks and engulfed the land. From Illinois and Indiana south to Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma, hundreds of thousands of acres seeded with the food the world is waiting for lay under water. Swirling chaos enveloped many a valley town and city. In Oklahoma, Iowa and Kansas, tornadoes added to the havoc...
...theorists had become pragmatic, the practical were now willing to take a few theories. The scent of battle, and not a hopeless battle, brought Republicans together in Washington last week. To them the New Deal Administration was like an overfat, overspread empire, whose sentinels are asleep, whose palaces are termite-rotten under the gilt. The hungry guerrillas peered at Glenn Frank's battle-chart and sniffed...