Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more business as usual," she had told the overflow crowd, speaking in support of a motion to strike in protest of the Cambodian invasion and the killings at Kent State. "All business at Harvard should be shut down: every building should be closed and every office should not function...
...collection. When Sotheby's chairman and chief auctioneer Peter Wilson pounded his small ivory hammer to begin the sale, 400 buyers filled the firm's chandeliered main auction salon; closed-circuit television brought the auction to four smaller rooms and the nearby Westbury Hotel ballroom for the overflow. As Wilson proceeded to knock down one record price after another, the dizzying figures were flashed on an electronic board above him in pounds, U.S. dollars, French francs, Italian lire, West German deutsche marks, Japanese yen and Swiss francs...
Begin's last stop was a four-day visit to New York. An overflow crowd greeted him at an Israeli Bonds luncheon, where individual pledges of $25,000 to $50,000 were made and a total contribution of $20 million was promised. At Yeshiva University he received another honorary degree. Jack Weiler, an Israeli Bonds national treasurer, told Begin: "Israel needs p.r. desperately, and you're doing beautifully...
...minor details wrong. Our species, Homo sapiens, is never spelled with a lower-case h. Irven DeVore's name is not spelled "DeVore." The overflow crowd in Science Center C was watching on a live video system, not "watching on video tape." And the ovation DeVore received was not a "standing" one, to the best of my recollection and that of a friend, both of us seated in the very last row of Science Center...
Devore, speaking to an overflow crowd at Science Center C, devoted most of the lecture to a description of the latest field work cataloguing animal behavior, and its relevance to the understanding of the evolution of human society...