Word: influx
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson editorial policy paused for an impatient week of orientation before striking out at specific issues. In three editorials dealing with College, national, and international issues, the Crimson asked Quo Vadimus?, questioned the University on the progress of its General Education plan, the adequacy of its adjustments to veteran influx, and its proclaimed intention to admit more "healthy, normal extrovert" students; it queried the United States on its frantic return to normaley, the United Nations on its Big Four domination and atom bomb fumbling...
...Western Holdings shares jumped from 72 to 105 shillings and Blinkpoort from 32 to 80, one thing seemed sure-the strike would produce no influx of motley adventurers, only a brief land boom for Free State farmers. Established companies hold mineral rights or options on almost all of the fertile grainlands, and there are few surface outcrops. If, as some Canadian and London experts warned that it might, the single borehole assay proved a fluke, thousands of speculators and small investors might see millions in paper profits disappear as fast as a summer shower on the parched Orange Free State...
Another consideration that entered into the setting up of the coming term's courses, according to Dean Buck, was that every effort was being made to have a complete catalogue available for the record breaking influx expected next fall...
...ready for occupancy Monday will be followed shortly by the opening of 138 other units. Construction began last January upon transfer of the structures from a South Portland, Maine, defense housing settlement by the Federal Public Housing Authority. Additional housing has been requested from the FPHA to accommodate the influx of married veteran students expected during the summer and fall...
...only factor on which all parties are agreed is the shortage of younger men capable of serving as junior department members and tutors during the sudden post-war influx of students...