Word: exoduses
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...obvious with a solo excursion. Evidently the same gradus honorum will be observed in world flights. But there is an important difference. Mr. Brody relinquished the front pages on his third attempt, and even the barrelleers were only good for five. When naivete has followed in the exodus of the earlier colonial virtues, possibly witless aeroplane maneouvers will join their predecessors in silence, and the native yen for high romance will undergo an advertising catharsis into more lively and less hazardous channels...
...present competition will be increased if the participants show by their interest that the demand for instruction in dramatic writing is a genuine one. The Dramatic Club is making as great an effort as it can to fill the gap left in the English department by the exodus of Mr. Baker, but it cannot alone complete the task it has set for itself. Dramatic writing is as important a form of expression as is fiction and poetry, and as such should be recognized by the English Department. The present lack of balance in composition courses should be compensated...
...exodus threatened to become a stampede, Peiping newspapers published an amazing story, impossible to confirm. Far north in Manchuria, they declared, 60,000 Chinese irregulars had suddenly appeared under General Yang Shou-chu, captured six towns, 600,000 rounds of ammunition, 1,200 rifles, 282 Japanese officers & men, 16 mountain guns, 14 field guns and 13 machine guns. To this Chinese-rumored victory was added the assertion that "20 of the captured Japanese were executed on the spot though $100,000 gold was offered to spare their lives...
...time of Mrs. Peabody's last voluntary exodus, she went South in the fall, following the birds. If the proposal outlined above is followed by the next Congress, the lady is free to go North in the spring. The birds will go with...
...were $9.50 an hour (four men) against $14 on Oct. 1, 1931. Most movers in the apartment house district are merely moving to smaller, cheaper apartments. In only a few cases, mostly in outlying districts, were movers moving in with kith & kin to share expenses. Notable was a large exodus from darkskinned Harlem...