Word: embark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Empire's exhibits will consume most of the visitors' time, to the exclusion of fun on the Midway. They must leave in time to motor to Hyde Park for dinner at Mother Roosevelt's. After a quiet weekend there, they will entrain for Canada to embark for home on the battle cruiser Repulse...
...tutors. Nowhere else do they openly exhibit their wares in the authorized student publications. Nowhere else do they presume to stuff their literature into student mail boxes for months without end, throughout the entire academic session. And nowhere else have they established themselves so securely that they dare embark on campaigns of respectability, making bold appeals directly to parents, whispering twisted words about their services to "maladjusted Freshmen" and kindred confused spirits...
Eventually, after much suffering-more vividly dramatized by lack of milk for the baby than by mangled bodies-the Corbetts reach Brest. In an ending that crackles patriotically with high hopes for England, Mrs. Corbett and the children embark for Canada, Peter returns to fight...
Crimson rugby players will embark on April 1 for a week's stay in Bermuda where they will play Yale, Princeton, and Cornell during the annual rugby week held there...
Said he: "It is no use to embark on discussions with a view to general settlement of differences, satisfaction of aspirations and removal of grievances unless those who come to the table are all convinced that all those who sit around it want a peaceable settlement and have no sinister idea in their minds. I say, therefore, that what we want to see is not only words which indicate a desire for peace but-before we can enter upon that final settlement -we shall want to see some concrete evidence of a willingness, let us say, to enter into arrangements...