Word: exits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these came quickly and halted the impending battle. He disposed of the case by returning the $11 to the scalper and causing the latter's hasty exit from the Yard...
...than he was by his Senatorial trimming at the hands of 34-year-old Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 62-year-old Jim Curley, his golden voice hoarse, prepared to depart for the West Indies. To reporters who intimated that he had received a second unmistakable cue for his political exit, the old boss parried: "I will decide what to do next when I have had a rest and my vision is clear...
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...
...wholesale exodus of varsity men took away from Coach Earl Blaik the result of his first three years as head coach of the Big Green and at the same time marked the exit of the most powerful Indian eleven since the days of Swede Oberlander...
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...