Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus, according to Exodus, were the Jews freed from their long slavery in Egypt, on a date now set at circa 1400 B. C. Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed. . . . And when the hour was come, He sat down, and the twelve apostles with Him. . . . And He came out, and went, as He was wont, to the Mount of Olives: and His disciples also followed Him. . . . And He that was called Judas . . . drew near unto Jesus to kiss Him. . . . Then took they Him, and led Him, and brought Him into the high priest...
...best course of action for the disappointed Freshman to adopt. Many students now accepted for the Houses will not occupy their appointed places next fall. The significant group of "dropped" Freshmen; the large numbers who will not return for scholastic, financial, or personal reasons; the annual Sophomore exodus to the pseudo-swank of the now decrepit Gold Coast; all of these are good insurance that the bars will be raised to many before September arrives...
...limitation were removed, there would probably not be a general exodus from the present distribution courses for Literature into the classics or modern languages in translation. But for an important minority, it would mean the stimulation of an exciting foreign literature, or a taste of the Classical otherwise not available to him. These few should be encouraged...
Apparently a careless biddy, in the one o'clock exodus, had left one of the trap doors of the incinerator open. A few minutes later a passer-by flipped a cigaret into the opening, whence it dropped to the basement on a pile of refuse. It took the services of the whole House janitorial staff to extinguish the blaze, which threatened to asphyxiate the residents of the upper floors...
Oldsters thought back twelve years and conceived A. & P.'s exodus as not improbable. They recalled another truckmen's strike in Jersey City, N. J. that closed A. & P.'s warehouse and distributing station. They stayed closed, their activities were transferred to Manhattan. The Hartford family who own A. & P. almost as securely as Henry Ford owns his business, are equally capable of taking drastic action. While the National Labor Relations Board summoned them and the unions to Washington, with a six-point peace plan offered by the Cleveland Regional Labor Board up for discussion, packers were...