Word: influx
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Morse's article told readers of the magazine of the great changes wrought at Harvard by the service influx, and some of the strange jobs now being done. In connection with administration he mentioned that the new type of institution has necessitated $300,000 worth of new bookkeeping equipment...
...Business School dating, bureau, announced "Although we were deluged with requests for handsome officers when the service first began, the rush is slowing down these days." Analyzing the break-down of this vital front, Miss Albert traces the cause to "increasing fussiness and the competition provided by the influx of 1000 naval officers across the river...
Geneva, instead of having a 10% influx of earnest young Americans learning to be soldiers, had a 100% influx of roughneck workmen-15,000 men, any sort of tough riffraff whom contractors could hire at high pay to build a big naval training station on Seneca Lake. All Geneva's spare rooms were let; cots filled the City Hall, an old movie house, a dance hall, hotel corridors. The once quiet, orderly town nearly went mad. Buses were so jammed that sometimes drivers had to threaten unruly crowds with wrenches in order to make them let passengers out. Decent...
...John Harvard has given way to Johnny Doughboy for the duration with the virtual transformation of the Harvard Graduate Schools into vital military centers for training officers and conducting research," the News reported. It further described the acute overcrowding caused by the influx of 3,000 Army and Navy officers taking training here...
...Outing Club went to Lexington and the German Club to local beer dens while married couples left their children with the eager girls of the Radcliffe Summer Play Group. Historical Boston was hit by an influx of landmark-gazers wish their seersucker-jacketed guides...