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Word: egress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...majority of U.N.'s General Assembly, the six Red-bloc nations dissenting. The plan provides for 1) a cooperative international agency to own and control all atomic energy, including production for peaceful use; 2) inspection by representatives of the control commission, who must have "unimpeded rights of ingress, egress and access . . . into, from and within the territories of any participating nation"; 3) majority rule in the control commission, without a veto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: No-Progress Report | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...spite of the sweep of progress, at least one familiar feature of Sever will remain. The signs that read "Emergency Egress Only" are being repainted. In fact, every classroom is to have...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

...foresaw the possibility that lettermen will have to lead their own cheers, in addition to pursuing their activities on the field of honor. At worst, local heroes maybe forced to carry themselves from the field, a difficult task, or resort to old-fashioned walking, a most mundane method of egress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Megaphone Trumpets For Tyro Cheerleaders | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...Sophomores were demonstrating the lethal weapon to a couple of girls in their room when one of them lifted the plunger, and released the lachrymose vapor. Amid great wailing and gnashing of teeth, and many tears, the victims groped for windows and means of egress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tear Gas Backfires As Sophs Try Skill on Girls | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

Here the islands were little bunkers, the larger units were fortresses which the Russians call "bins." Some were visible, to draw attack in their direction-into traps of other bins camouflaged with turf. Some served as huge underground tank hangars. From each bin, "drains" were dug-trenches to give egress to woods. Camouflaged tractors stood ready to haul off artillery in case of retreat. The bigger bins bristled with antiaircraft, the smaller were draped with nets and foliage to hide them from the air. Into this system the Russians crowded something like 60 divisions. The Germans went after them with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Greatest Battle of All | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

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