Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been a resort for the wealthy since the 1880s, expected to zoom to a bustling town of 12,000, and already last week, real-estate prices had started to spiral. At Augusta, Ga. (pop. 70,000), the chamber of commerce predicted that the general influx of population and prosperity would be equivalent to moving 100 large industries into the region...
Although already working at a "close to reading period pitch," McNiff remarked that Lamont can take care of the present influx because it now has the largest supply of boks that the College has had for the last ten years...
...mobilization factor, the possibility that current crises will bring colleges back to a wartime basis with Army and Navy courses and an influx of married students, is a primary reason for the upkeep of present residential units," Roy F. Gootenberg 2 PA, vice-chairman of the Harvard Chapter of A.V.C., said yesterday...
William G. McLoughlin, assistant dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, admitted yesterday, that his office has been disturbed recently over reports that dwellers in the new Center have been importing sofas, bookcases, and other large furnishings from old rooms. This influx of comparative period pieces has forced the furniture designed by center chief architect Walter Gropins, professor of Architecture, out of the small rooms...
...This influx of newcomers has been emphasized by the Blodgett case, and aroused angry comments in the local press. According to the Chicago Sun Times, the Urbana News-Gazette, commenting on the Blodgett case, looked "askance at the 'outsiders' whom Bowen hired and allows as how it was much nicer when there were only 'comfortable' profs around who belonged to the local Kiwanis and Rotary clubs and thrilled to the deeds of the Illini gridiron heroes...