Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...splitting of tha gross receipts. This is an impossibility. By opening the common rooms of those Houses with smaller dining halls, all the Houses are approximately equal in the number of couples permitted entrance under the fire laws. Under your plan a central House would sell tickets to an overflow crowd, send the overflow to fill a less strategically located House without the adequate compensation for the overflow. This is quite unfair to the less centralized House...
...publications in Shanghai points up the fact that in the Orient, the war of ideas and words is a real war. Certainly the Chinese Communists recognize this. In many Southeast Asian countries the Red Star and Mao Tse-tung's face are among the most familiar sights; bookstores overflow with Communist propaganda produced locally or imported from Russia, China and Vietminh. In areas where literacy rates are generally very low the Communists have accepted the great truth that the spoken word, the whispering campaign and the picture cartoon are far more potent weapons than the written word...
...Bertrand Russell's recent lecture I arrived an hour early in order to secure a good seat. When the lecture was about to begin it was decided that a larger hall was needed for the overflow. As a result I was at a disadvantage when the rush started and I was able to get only a much inferior seat in Sanders Theatre, compared to the one I had enjoyed in the New Lecture Hall. Furthermore, there had been a loud speaker in the New Lecture Hall but none was in Sanders Theatre. Mr. Russell's aged voice was not large...
Aericans--and particularly New Englanders.--have lived under an ethical framework which is much too big for them, Thornton Wilder said last night before an overflow crowd in the New Lecture Hall. His talk entitled. "Thoreau or the Bean-Row in the Wilderness," was the second in this year's Charles Eliot Norton lectures...
...session of some 300 breakfasts, luncheons, dinners, lectures and services. At the mission's opening ceremony in 10,000-capacity Uline Arena, 250 black-robed local ministers joined with the visiting preachers in a "Festival of Faith" which packed the hall and spilled an overflow crowd of 2,000 into a nearby church. Total attendance: an estimated...