Word: egress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days began one dawn, last week, in Tokyo-dawn being the most auspicious hour for the egress of the Son of Heaven...
...woman's husband gulp down his evening meal, reach for his hat, announce that he is "going for a walk," setting out to get a cigar, starting for a lodge meeting, calling on a sick friend, or give any other of the ancient husbandly pretexts for effecting an egress from his home, what steps are proper for his wife to take? Not tears or smiles, not reproaches or endearments, not cries or kisses, according to Negro "Dr." Samuel Kojoe Pearce, lodged last week in a St. Louis jail. The correct procedure is to purchase one or another...
...nine railroads but these, after most of her other difficulties were solved, were long in the throes of rate wars. And after the railroads were quieted and regulated, two wide new vistas opened, calling Birmingham to fresh effort-the vistas of enormous power from nearby Muscle Shoals and of egress to the Gulf of Mexico down the Warrior River...
Cambridge still lacks, however, a beacon at one most important intersection--the blind corner by Jimmie's Lampoon Lunch, where Plympton Street, one of the chief means of local egress from the Metropolitan Parkway, crosses the Mt. Auburn Street artery. The collision which occurred there last evening was trifling, but it is only the long arm of coincidence that has as yet kept the crossing from being the scene of a really tragic accident. This possibility undergraduate drivers realize and they generally approach with some caution, a habit which the majority of passers, either through negligence or ignorance, never acquire...
...where the deaths were occurring began to whisper a word whose horror, long laid in the earth, once screamed from every ditch, devastating cities. "Plague," they said. Health authorities acted. The Mexican Quarter was tightly quarantined. None were allowed passage through its streets, even in automobiles. None were allowed egress from the district except a few industrial workers with special permits. Food was delivered but no garbage or milk containers taken out. The dead were burnt at once. Those ministering to the pestilence-stricken went in and out wearing a sterilized habit, their faces masked. Doctors stated that a pneumonic...