Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Freight Handlers. By vote of 6 to 1, the convention voted to suspend from the Federation the union of railway and steamship clerks, freight handlers, express and station employees unless it should abandon claims to jurisdiction over drivers and chauffeurs, etc., who belong to another union. The delegates of the suspended union, which has 160,000 members, threatened that their union would withdraw from the Federation rather than yield...
...each of the major sports your Committee appoints annually an advisory Committee of three to five graduates with one or more associate members, in each of which the Graduate Treasurer is ex-officio a member. No head coach may, however, belong. The appointments are made by your Committee on its own discretion, but the captain or the head coach, if the latter is a Harvard man, may, for the information of your Committee, file nominations and state their reasons. These Sub-Committees have no executive powers of their own beyond routine affairs. They are, however, close to the major sport...
...predecessor. The old uncle is usually amusing but not always convincing in the hands of C. Wordley Hulse. And Morris Carnovsky, as Morgan Pell, the unfortunate husband, is required by the author to confound all plausibility by announcing to his wife that dogs who do not know whom they belong to should be beaton, and wives as well...
...made up of men not on the University squad whose weight exceeds 160 pounds, while the 150-pound crews consist of men weighing less than 155 pounds. Men whose weight falls between the 155 and 160 pound marks have the privilege of choosing to which squad they will belong...
...wind was whistling. Spray was flying. Cutting the air like a scimitar came cries for help. Up jumped Edda, peered seawards, saw a bobbing head. Without hesitation she dived into the roaring brine. With long, strong strokes, she propelled herself to the bobbing head, which she discovered to belong to a woman. As the drowner was about to sink, Signorina Mussolini grabbed her, managed to keep her afloat until an armada of rowboated rescuers arrived...