Word: influx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more important, Virginia's Republican Party, given impetus by the influx of new Alexandria-Arlington voters, has developed into a bona fide political force: Dwight Eisenhower twice carried the state, the first time by 80,000 votes, this year by 122,000; Virginia has two Republican Congressmen who have withstood the test of off-year elections; Democratic incumbents were hard pressed in three other districts this year; Republican State Senator Ted Dalton received more than 44% of the vote for governor in 1953. Expected to run again next year, he may threaten the organization's hold on Richmond...
Leading this year's influx of foreign players is the Business School's Alan Wadell, who was invited to the trial match for likely candidates for the Scottish International side. The other half back will be freshman Don Shojai, a Persian who learned his rugby in England...
Pianist Istomin feels that he arrived on the U.S. musical scene at an ideal time. The son of Russian-born professional singers, he studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia under Pianist Rudolf Serkin. The U.S. was then benefiting from the wartime influx of great European artists. Says Istomin: "Every time I heard men like Rubinstein. Artur Schnabel, Horowitz, or Bruno Walter. I felt as though artistically I had robbed the city bank of New York. We were a very lucky generation...
...injured (some still in the hospital) from last year's 24-hour Grand Prix of Endurance. But the good citizens of Le Mans and the nervous officials of France's Automobile Club de I'Ouest also remembered that les -vingt-quatre heures mean a grand influx of 1) hundreds of thousands of visitors, and 2) coin of the realm. So they worked out a compromise between dollars and danger. They widened the road, beefed up the grandstand, and optimistically wrote some strict rules for cars and drivers...
During the past eight years, two dormitories, Holmes and Moors, have been erected to help accommodate the influx of students requesting housing. Recently, Radcliffe has had trouble providing housing for all who desired it, with the result that many local 'Cliffedwellers have been forced to commute...