Word: egression
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...door in the rear of Sever 24, which leads to the back stairway and "emergency egress," burst open during class Friday. By the time the class could turn around the door was halfway shut but the diminishing view of two Radcliffe coats could still be seen...
Striving to avoid monotonous repetition in their daily compositions, the dieticians have coined this phrase to take the place of the more mundane "whole wheat bread," thus following the lead of the Maintenance Department, which earlier in the year labelled the new Sever exit an "egress...
Despite all that Yale and her scholars can do to purify the English language, Harvard's pedantic phrases are ever with us. In fact they are so firmly entrenched at Cambridge that the Maintenance Department has just glorified a new exit in Sever Hall with the sign "Emergency Egress Only...
Taking their cut from the late Phineas T. Barnum, the Maintenance Department men have painted, in large white letters on the new exits from Sever Hall, "Emergency Egress Only." It was Barnum who, when he wanted to clear his famed American Museum, put a sign reading "To the Egress," over a door to the street, and the local citizenry, eager to see the new curiosity, soon found themselves out of the museum, leaving room for more to enter...
...There may be also a laccolith: a formation where lava once pooled into a cone. The top crust cooled but the hot material beneath found egress, leaving a bubble formation with the top separated from the bottom by perhaps 1,500 ft. In this case sinking would continue until a box canyon was formed...