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...although the company owns six great grain elevators, including the Northwestern in Chicago (largest in the world), and leases ten others. In these elevators it can store 28,800,000 bushels of grain. In effect it is to the U. S. what Joseph was to Egypt before the Israelite exodus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burnt Grain | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

Spring once penetrated, too, very slowly indeed perhaps into University Hall, and so many deans began to yawn that it was decided that something had to be done. And that something was the Spring Recess. And so now, it is that late in every April there is a joyful exodus from Cambridge of carefree underclassmen and even a few very wicked, on very brilliant, on very devilclay-care seniors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WIND OF SPRINGTIME | 4/16/1927 | See Source »

This year the exodus may be unusually glad, for students may use their vacation to celebrate Easter as well as Patriot's Day. How seldom it is that indifferent Cantabridgians can spare time for the annual egg-rolling on the White House lawn. Whether pent-up youth spends his father's substance on gilded night clubs or goes North "where hill is heaped on hill, the CRIMSON wishes him the top of the season--nor does it fail to drop a tear for the divisional-ridden senior sophister...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WIND OF SPRINGTIME | 4/16/1927 | See Source »

...Baldwin is in a predicament, but it is safe to say that should he take a chance and give Great Britain over to the mercies of the feminine sex no great excitement would be occasioned in the United States where the same experment did not result in an exodus of housewives from the kitchen to the Capitol. Unfortunately, votes for women have brought no millenium to America nor is it likely that they will bring one to England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FLAPPER VOTE | 4/13/1927 | See Source »

...contradicted Dr. Hankins. Said Amateur Sociologist Darrow: "The [Negro] breed is not running out. They are here and are here to stay. They are not going to Liberia. The white people don't want them to go. If the colored people should try to leave in any general exodus in any Southern state, they would probably be met by force to keep them where they are. Somebody has got to work. We Nordics are not going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Persistence | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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