Word: exoduses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writer in the Saturday Review of Literature has commented on the weekend exodus from colleges with less satire and more acumen than was displayed in a recent article on the same subject in the Harkness Hoot. Various expedients have been suggested recently to relieve the tedium of the average academic Sabbath, but the one factor that is most in tune with the scholastic scheme of things has escaped observation...
...bleating sheep, which had been made to swim out from St. Kilda's gravelly landing beach (St. Kilda has no harbor). Left behind were hundreds of other sheep, too wild to catch, hidden away in the island caves with the seamews and the puffins. Reason for the exodus: St. Kilda's new owner, the Marquess of Ailsa and the British Labor Government had both decided that bleak St. Kilda is unfit for human habitation. Said Lord Ailsa's son, Archibald Kennedy, Earl of Cassillis...
Mass Vacation. Last week 75,000 employes of Western Electric Co. went on their vacations, an exodus of Biblical proportions. Skeleton crews will keep Western Electric's plants from falling apart, will handle emergency orders for electrical equipment...
...somewhat before 9 a. m. the 50th day (pentecost means 50th day) after Easter. The Jews had celebrated their Pentecost the sennight before, to commemorate Moses' giving their ancestors the Ten Commandments 50 days after the Exodus from Egypt. Peter and the other eleven Apostles, including newly elected Matthias,* were communing in the upstairs room of a Jerusalem house. Then and thus The Acts...
...Biblical times the great Egyptian locust plague was dispersed when Pharaoh persuaded Moses to entreat the Lord of Hosts (Exodus...