Word: exodusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Integration may spur a general exodus of white citizens from the capital. In one year the number of white students in Washington schools dropped from 38,768 to 34,750, now accounts for only 32% of the school population. "In the not-too-distant future," said the committee, "the District of Columbia will be a predominantly Negro community...
...with that event, more single rooms, it is unfortunate that the Masters have decided to slam the doors now. When the right to leave the House was left to the discretion of the individual Senior Tutor, who knew the case best, there was, even then, no large scale exodus. The Senior Tutors have the best interests of the House as well as the student in mind and, moreover, they are by virtue of their position, best qualified to judge the needs of both...
...Other scholars think Sinai is in the volcanic Mount Seir range in southern Israel, which would account for the "thunders and lightenings, and a thick cloud upon the mount" of Exodus 19:16, but the route there would not jibe with Biblical accounts...
...Most recent theory is that in their Exodus the Israelites did not follow the southern route traced by tradition, but the sandy northern road along the Mediterranean coast (see map). In that case, Mount Sinai should be that unimpressive mound known as Jebel Hillel, 30 miles south of El Arish, and rising a mere 2,000 ft. from the alluvial plain...
Chief arguement raised in favor of the revision was the expensive, or uncomfortable discrepancy between the 11 p.m. exodus and the 1 a.m. return hours at most women's institutions...