Word: egress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great mop of grey hair, Maître Joseph Paul-Boncour. In Geneva they used to know him as the perennial No. 2 French Delegate to the League, Aristide Briand being No. 1. Often, while No. 1 slumbered or seemed to slumber in his aisle seat, blocking the egress of other French Delegates, nimble No. 2 would leave and return to his seat by leaping lightly over a desk, thus permitting No. 1 to slumber...
...operators who have faced insuperable difficulties on account of the growing use of substitutees for coal. In the same spirit the capitalists feel no compunctions in employing every means to combat the miners, even to the subversion of police power. Neither side considers the problem intelligently, and the only egress from the resulting impasse is afforded when one group reaches the limits of its resources...
...sent for his wife, after arranging with the U. S. State Department for her entrance as a permanent resident. But so highly do the Soviet authorities regard Professor Krynine's services, it was said last week, that despite all he could do, they refused his wife egress from the Union, hoping to lure him home...