Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...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...
...noted advocate of world government, Meyer spoke before an overflow crowd in Sever 11 last fall. He is a former president of the United World Federalists and the author of several widely quoted and influential books on his theories of government...
...Good parents are persons who use actively what they have learned passively in childhood," Anna Freud told an overflow audience last night at the New Lecture Hall...
...establishment of Kirkland House, John Hicks' old dwelling lost its last tenants and became the House library. Bookshelves were installed, and each of the nine rooms of the house was filled with books of one particular field. Overstuffed chairs and new pictures were put in, a cellar for overflow and phonograph records installed, and a new door built connecting the library with the House proper...