Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many Sires. Love repressed in one area bursts out in another. Anna swims through day after day in a sea of 70 children-white, Maori, and "the brown-white of the New Race"-who overflow her prefab schoolhouse. There are screams from little brown Ara: "Miss Vottot! Seven he's got a knife! He's cutteen my stomat!" Blossom's nose needs wiping, Matawhero's shirt must be tucked in, Dennis' lost pencil found, Twinnie's tears crooned away, lice plucked from Mere's hair. And more screams: "Miss Popoff, Seven...
Conant spoke on "The Revolutionary Transformation of the American High School" last night before an overflow crowd in New Lecture Hall. His address, the annual Inglis Lecture on Secondary Education, was sponsored by the Graduate School of Education...
...Absolute Chaos." The battle of the airlines raised havoc with holiday traffic. T.W.A., which put on 85 extra sections to carry the Christmas overflow, said its ticket counters at New York's Idlewild Airport were "absolute chaos." United Air Lines flights were booked solidly for ten days in advance. National Airlines was flying 4,000 passengers daily-double its normal load-to and from Miami, some of them in the 707 jet that it has leased from Pan American. National leased eight other planes from such faraway carriers as Hawaiian Airlines, put employees on six-and seven-day weeks...
Harvard's religious revival is climaxed by a visit from Billy Graham and a band of the faithful. An overflow audience in Sanders Theatre responds jubilantly to the message. Three hundred undergraduates, including the entire cast of Drumbeats and Song, which was caught during rehearsal, are converted. Paul Tillich stalks out of the meeting, saying that he is not grasped by ultimate concern. No one is quite sure of what he meant to say. Nathan P. sends the money back to the Times, commenting that he is sure there must have been a mistake...
...regular quarterly meeting of the Connecticut Society for Psychiatry and Neurology, which usually attracts an attendance of about 60. But the 220 seats in Fitkin Amphitheater at Grace-New Haven Community Hospital were nothing like enough: eager auditors overflowed onto the floor and sat literally at the speaker's feet; standees jammed the back of the hall, an anteroom and stairways. The word they had come to hear was entitled "Contributions of Existential Psychoanalysis." The speaker: Manhattan's Psychoanalyst Rollo May. His audience included, besides the association's hard core of psychiatrists, many members of Yale...