Word: influx
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...symbol of her emancipation woman has agreed voluntarily to cast away. No longer need weary travelling men vacate their habitat before a feminine influx, or harassed deans tear their hair at co-eds who refuse to obey non-smoking regulations; not, that is, if the vote of the National Convention of Sororities means anything...
...Widener Treasure and Memorial Rooms have prepared for the customary influx of visitors which class day and graduation brings to Cambridge with exhibits which contains books on the early history of the college and a collection of autographs...
...whole stage," Mr. Bunker continued, "has been completely altered in the last few years by the influx of college graduates. English producers have a large number of highly trained actors to oraw from who have completed their education before taking up the stage. It has not been thus in the United States, however, until recently, but the steadily rising number of college men and women who have chosen acting as their profession has raised the general tone of the American drama...
With such opportunities before them. Harvard men will undoubtedly rise to the occasion, and the threatened scarcity of handsome males in Movieland will be obliterated by an ingratiating influx of visages fit only to adorn the epics of the celluloid drama...
...interesting survival of the Alaskan gold rush of 1848 is the fact that no one in the North ever asks you where you are from. This is a result of the influx of a number of questionable characters during the gold strike, men whom it would have been dangerous to question. Nearly all of the trappers in Arctic Canada and in Alaska for that matter, are gold miners who entered the territory 28 years age and have not been able to leave it. Most of them make from $3,000 to $1,000 a year selling furs to the Hudson...