It was a myth for an urban society, and it didn't quite survive the great postwar migration to the suburbs, where the streets just didn't seem mean enough (then) to need a Marlowe to go down them.

The percentage of blacks has steadily declined, because of both black postwar migration to economic opportunities in Northern cities and the influx of whites from other regions, who are moving South in increasing numbers.

His life is a tangle of uncertainties, for he cannot tell if the human flow has merely paused or has come to a full stop, the way other postwar migrations of Muslims from Bulgaria have ended.

Italy's postwar migration certainly grew out of the country's policy of industrial development.

The destruction of Poland's Jewish community, Poland's postwar territorial changes, and postwar migrations left Poland without its historic ethnic minorities.

He went to Palestine with a postwar migration of settlers from Europe.

Mr. Lemann tells little to dispel the view that a main result of postwar black migration was the revelation that the North was just as vulnerable to racial tensions as the South.

Both the Italian and Yugoslav communities were renewed and expanded during the period of postwar migration in the 1940s, and St Johns Park is still a very multicultural area.

The first European-American settler arrived at what became Sodus in 1809, as part of the great postwar migration of settlers from New England into western New York.

The experimental project in New Jersey is part of a growing trend across the region as the nation's suburban developments face a demographic wave as momentous as the postwar migration that built them.