Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drawn off the land into the factories. When industry is depressed this reserve goes back to the land. In America, which until about 20 years ago was a pioneer and not a settled country, the labor for expanding industries was drawn from; Europe. Statistics show that the rate of influx of immigrants and the rate of production, say of pig iron, go up and down together. But labor imported from the European peasantry to aid an American business boom cannot go back to Europe when the boom is over. It has to stay, be assimilated and Americanized. This was possible...
...this influx of culture has its price. The sacred White Elephant is losing caste. Once he lived in a palace, wore gold trappings, and had girls to dance before him while he ate the choicest fruits. Now he is housed in an ordinary stable and, like his darker brethren, must work in harness for his hay. Such is the fate of the pachyderm which legend calls the heavenly form of Gantama Buddha...
Labor wants immigration cut to a minimum. So-called "Big Business " wants immigration increased. Both agree, however, that it is well to incorporate in the bill the "year 1890" proviso. That would increase the influx of hardy, industrious northern Europeans and would diminish the number of southern Europeans...
...much importance is not to be laid upon a temporary phase much magnified by alarmists. In the seven hundred years of Oxford's splendid history the university has built up a tradition as deep-rooted and unshakable as the Common Law. Even in 'Erasmus' day English scholars bemoaned the influx of the foreign student. The present inundation of Americans is far more likely to be absorbed by the atmosphere than to absorb it. The momentum of seven hundred years is not to be checked and swept away in four or five...
...Huntington has made this country, especially since the war, a storehouse of famous paintings largely brought from abroad. As a result a flair for anything foreign developed and the effect on American art has been widespread. Individually, little can be done by American artists to stave off this influx of foreign-born art beyond all reason. No literary test can be-applied and there are no immigration laws to govern paintings...