Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order to understand the Cambridge political climate a little social biography is necessary. With a population of 125,000 Cambridge is the fourth largest city in the Commonwealth. Founded in 1630 it grew slowly for 200 years, then mushroomed with the great influx of Irish immigrants in 1840. In this period the still evident "town vs. gown" feeling was especially bitter. It wasn't long before Irish leaders organized under the Democratic banner and machine politics subverted local government for its own ends...
...than three years of war, it will take more than candy, bubble gum and "al kine camera bag" to supply a decent living standard for South Korea's 22 million people. In three years, 600,000 homes have been destroyed; because of a high birth rate and the influx of tens of thousands of refugees, 900,000 new or rebuilt houses are needed. Coal production is down 50% from prewar. Grain output, the core of Korea's economy, is off from 3,500,000 tons to 2,300,000. In a nation whose gross national product...
...after World War I to serve Britain's strategic purposes. Its 37,000 sq. mi. are three-fifths desert, with no oil, no industrial raw materials, tortuous roads and one inaccessible port (Agaba). The population, tripled t01,400,000 by the annexation of part of Palestine and the influx of refugees, is divided against itself. Refugee camps are an organized horror of dirt and malnutrition. Jordan scrapes along largely on British handouts, and glories chiefly in its 15,000-man, British-officered Arab Legion, best army in the Arab world...
...Congress did not help them, so the Daughters had to look for their own brand of protection. In 1950, the Daughters passed a resolution urging "the observance of national holidays as an antidote to the influx of aliens." But they also noted that holidays were slipping and hastened to support them. Their special nostrum, the Fourth of July, needed some pep, so they advocated "a return to the former ringing of bells, pageants and parades...
Similarly, Housemasters should insure that all fields of concentration are represented in each House. And no one field should be so predominant that the House is out of balance or that the tutors can not accommodate the specialized influx. To turn one House into a cluster of English, social relations, or biology majors is to encourage an academic parochialism...