Word: overflows
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Contralto Marian Anderson, appearing at London's Royal Albert Hall, had to turn away from the audience twice to sing to the 1,200 music lovers crowded on narrow benches in the organ gallery behind the stage. The overflow of fans had stood in line most...
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...