Word: exoduses
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...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...
...good mother and matron. Dark, mystic, ever dissatisfied Margaret ends her wild search for freedom and beauty as the mistress of a man who refuses to give up his wife and family. Bunny, the youngest and most completely free of them all, marries a fiery Communist and completes the exodus from the Ferguson home. Their children gone and Fred's life work at the bank finished, "the folks" take their first vacation and visit Mama Ferguson's wealthy Californian sister. Their roots are in Belmond and they will not be torn free, so "the folks" return to Belmond and settle...