Word: influx
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Volga River in the 16th Century, during the reign of the weakling Theodore, son of Ivan the Terrible. It was to be a fortress against the wandering tribes of the steppe. At first its citizens were mostly Cossacks, but in the 19th Century there was a great influx of Poles and Germans-particularly from Danzig...
Activity in Memorial Hall will continue today, although at a slower pace, as the vanguard of the other classes trickles in to present itself to the University officially. Stanley K. Leonard, in charge of registration, expects the heaviest influx to come on Monday, the last day on which students may register without a fine...
...Influx of new and young blood is the magic but treacherous formula from which Mikkola is concocting his team. If these less experienced men can develop fast and completely enough, Mikkola will yet be able to overcome his current handicap but it is a long...
With Coulee's enormous load added, the industrialization of the Northwest proceeds apace. But the influx of new customers does not cheer the eleven private utilities. They know Raver's 100% public-power dream proceeds apace...
...super-serial historical romance (The Road to Glory); in Weston super Mare, England. Romancer Austin's heroic imagination made his magazine articles prescient. Said he in 1935: "Imagine four million Parisians streaming out of Paris by every road, choking every artery, hindering all military movements, preventing the influx of supplies, paralyzing more or less the nerve centre of the country. That is what is going to happen when the first German bombers appear over Paris...