Word: exodusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Traveling Refreshment. The visit to Washington was not Home's first desertion of the $250,000 Manhattan studio built especially for the middle one of NBC's three big weekday "magazine" shows (the others: Today and Tonight). The idea for the exodus came from NBC President Pat Weaver, who decided that Home needed an occasional trip from New York to find "refreshment in ... the new ideas and new contacts that result from any physical change." Even more pertinent: an experimental trip to San Francisco last January boosted Home's A.R.B. audience rating in that city from...
Four trackmen will join the lacrosse, golf, rugby, and baseball squads this weekend in the massive Crimson athletic exodus from Cambridge...
...changeover began with rumors that there would be riots, drastic restrictions and Red reprisals. But when the moment came, Hanoi, the city where the war began nearly eight years before, met it with Oriental reserve. Those who could had already fled, in a melancholy, six-weeks-long exodus which drained off some 40,000, a tenth of Hanoi's population, to havens to the south. When the first of the Viet Minh headed into the city, street crowds uttered only occasional, hesitant cheers. As the trickle grew into a rumbling stream of troops, the Vietnamese poured out from boarded...
Mountain Day was first started at Smith College to give the young ladies an outing in the beautiful New England autumn to frollo in the mountains and country-side. Now, with mass transportation, it has become an annual exodus to the men's colleges in the tri-state area...
...English grammar and word usage, carefully recommended good books, had a steady circulation of 80,000. When it rejected a manuscript, it offered a detailed criticism. Among its regular contributors: Winston Churchill, Rebecca West, Arnold Bennett, Max Beerbohm, W. Somerset Maugham. During World War II, newsprint restrictions and the exodus to the services cut John O'London's circulation to 50,000, and it never recovered. Last week its publishers sadly announced the last issue; high costs and changing tastes had forced the magazine out of business. Lamented John O'London's Editor Webster Evans: "People...