Word: exoduses
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Confronted by traces of a general exodus into Yucatan between 530 and 629 A.D., archeologists have long held that the Mayas, driven out by famine, pestilence, war, or decadence, left the Old Empire cities wholly deserted. Last spring J. Eric Thompson of Chicago's Field Museum made excavations in the Old Empire site around San Jose, reported evidence of continuous occupation down to the 15th Century, just before the Spanish invasions. He dug up copper vessels, a shred of cloth smaller than a dime, neither of which had been found in this region before ; an axe carved from...
Despite the fact that the number of men leaving the Houses this year is slightly smaller than in the last two years, an annual exodus is ample evidence that the House Plan has some undesirable aspects. Such a radical change in University life has had surprising success, but it is good time to take stock of the present situation, and consider carefully what changes are necessary...
...Prizeman Ostberg of U. S. buildings: "As I know of them from drawings they seem things of astonishing beauty." To all living "children and children's children'' of Hameln, Germany, went invitations to return for a summer-long observance of the 650th anniversary of the child exodus led by the Pied Piper. On June 26 a monument to the Piper will be unveiled and dedicated. Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hiawatha of the Algonquian Ojibwas ceased to be a legend, was proved a person when the Smithsonian Institution announced that, an Iroquois, he lived between...
...Zion, Ill. one night last week Rev. Finis J. Dake read these words, the ten first in the Bible, from his pulpit in small Christian Assembly Church. He continued reading, through Genesis into Exodus. After four hours he stopped. A Mr. Slutz mounted the pulpit, went on where Mr. Dake left off. Two hours later a young woman started in on Leviticus. On & on the reading went, a monotonous drone which was broadcast outside the church with loudspeakers. Preacher Dake was putting on a Bible-reading marathon and wanted everyone to know...
Significance. So long as capital flowed to the U. S. in the form of gold Secretary Morgenthau did not have to worry about keeping the exchange value of the dollar down. But he was well aware that if France, frightened by the gold exodus, put an embargo on gold exports he would have to use his exchange fund to sell dollars. How many hundreds of millions of dollars he might have to sell to keep the dollar down no one knew...