Word: exit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject in your Feb. 20 issue. They, however, neglected to mention that 20 years ago much of the power of the country was furnished by animals called horses: that agriculture furnished the fuel called corn, oats and hay to run these horses: that man invented automobiles, trucks and tractors. Exit horses and exit also an important part of agriculture's market...
...Exit Japan. In loud, decisive tones Yosuke Matsuoka read to the League Assembly milder words from Tokyo than had been expected. He implied rather than announced Japanese withdrawal from the League. "The Japanese Government are obliged," he read, "to feel that they have now reached the limit of their endeavors to cooperate with the League regarding the Chino-Japanese differences...
Stepping down from the Tribune, Japan's Matsuoka beckoned imperiously to the rest of his delegation, some members of which were known to oppose a dramatic exit. Obediently but rather slowly they rose, followed their Chief who marched firmly from the hall. In the lobbies, in the cloak room no non-Japanese spoke to Pariah Matsuoka. Impassive, he clipped a cigar, struck a match, puffed air mechanically, threw away the match, walked out unconscious that his cigar had failed to light. Cameras clicked. Cinemachines whirred. Up swept a bright limousine with the flag of the rising sun streaming from...
...months, the bins discharge slowly through a s-ft. pipe into a tin pie plate as the birds empty it. The device is fastened about two feet from the ground, enclosed in natural-looking brush. Four openings are left in the brush so the birds may make a hasty exit when vermin come in. Put out on Christmas morning, one feeder was reported three days later to have attracted thousands of birds...
...thousand or a million or a billion rubles (nominally worth 50? each) will not buy an exit visa; and of course Russians in Russia cannot earn valuta, can earn only rubles. Thus the new decree means that to leave his country a Russian will have to appeal to people outside for foreign money, virtual "head money" paid to the Soviet State for his release...