Word: overflowing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...descriptions of such conditions that have been current, verbally and in writing, since the Armistice. Nevertheless, audiences who saw the first showings of War Nurse last week frequently laughed at the wrong times. Audiences can absorb visible violence only up to a definite saturation point, after which they overflow into the only available reaction-laughter. But if the violence is presented through the brain of some character, in whose place the audience can stand, there is no saturation point. As a loose-jointed account of how life went on for a group of girls just behind the Front, War Nurse...
...score tied. At the crack of his clean single the record crowd, spreading down over the grandstand terraces into roped-off areas along the sidelines, began to stir and shout. Kiki Cuyler lined out to Hendrick but then Hack Wilson hit safely and Taylor smacked the ball into the overflow crowd at the right, bringing in the run that won the game for the Cubs, 4-3. The big crowd went home jubilant. In a crucial series with Brooklyn, who had led the league until their final game with St. Louis early in the week, the Cubs had won three...
...Saturday evenings or on Sunday the filters themselves can be cleaned by forcing the water back through them. Some waste will escape through the overflow, which, however, will be closed during meets to assure a quiet surface...