Word: influx
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yale weekends at Harvard always mean the influx of athletic teams, always in good numbers. Acting as hosts to the members of these squads is perhaps the biggest job of the Key, but it is one that the group has found most easy to handle...
Hanover was reportedly deserted at 8 p.m. last evening, with virtually the entire Dartmouth student body either en route or already in the Boston area. However, the influx of 3,000 men in Green had no noticeable effect on Boston, with local hotels reporting all quiet at mid-night...
Minister of the Interior Vrjö Leino, boss of the "Valpo" or political police, countered with orders for tighter border control. But Finland's border remained wide open to an influx of Finnish Communist agents from Otto Kuusinen's nearby Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic. Election of delegates to the Finnish Diet was scheduled for July. At present, in a bloc with the Socialist Union party, Communists control 51 of its 200 seats. But in recent local elections Communist candidates have been losing ground. If the Communists intended to cement control, the time...
Already, his twelve-year influx comprises 3,000 work sheets-some by famed poets, some by small fry; some written methodically in notebooks, others jotted on old envelopes or on the backs of gas-and-electricity bills which do not always appear to have been paid...
...Hygiene Department reports a lower number of exam-time casualties than it can over remember. Flu is almost absent, and though the danger of an epidemic or a pandemic is always there, that is hardly the point. It seems that for some reason Stillman always has its greatest influx of customers during the last couple of weeks in January. Some of the unfortunate take too much benzedrine, others find the Infirmary the safest place to be during a final, but a larger number are real victims of the psychological pressure of examinations...