Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Children's Bureau estimated that twice as many boys & girls between 14 and 18 went to work in 1941 as in 1940 (the Bureau gave work certificates to 500,000), said the number mounted rapidly in 1942. Bureau Head Katharine F. Lenroot was plainly worried lest the exodus from school be too great...
...nobody cheered except the recruiting officers. The Los Angeles Daily News called the enlistments a "mass exodus" and manufacturers cited instances. Vultee said "We've never had so many people absent. Our chief engineer was tearing his hair." One company had not only lost many enlistees but had 1,500 applications for releases (from classification as a necessary worker), so that men could enlist. Another company in one day lost three turret-lathe operators out of 30. Another lost four automatic-screw machinists out of 18. A parts plant lost eight out of 16 patternmakers and another which employed...
...Exodus, or Simplified procedure of collecting the Doctor's fee was drawn by the roistering British cartoonist Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), whose caricatures of the classic struggle between doctors & patients were shown last week at the History of Medicine Association in Atlantic City. Other rowdy Rowlandsons...
Quite the reverse has occurred in the Anthropology Department, where, instead of an exodus of staff men away from Harvard there has been a rapid inflow of research fellows to the University from all over the world. All the field workers from the Near East and the one working in India have returned and others from the war zones are constantly returning. Travelling fellowships are now being used for work in South America rather than in Europe, with some notable research being conducted there. One Anthropology instructor, whose name cannot even be revealed at this time, is preparing...
...last war America's entrance on April 6 was immediately followed at Harvard by the abandonment of the entire athletic program, by an active drive for R.O.T.C. membership, and by a general exodus to the armed forces. In the CRIMSON of April 7, 1917, appeared a statement from Leonard Wood advising all students "to continue their present University work and military training until such time as the plans for the mobilization of citizen forces are promulgated...