Word: enlist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...philanthropic activities are so comprehensive in scope that more men are desired. The work is for the most part concerned with boys' clubs, but it also includes Americanization work and settlement house entertainments. Last year there were 250 men doing social service work. The Social Service Committee hopes to enlist an even greater number this year...
...Boston Chamber of Commerce, in common with similar organizations in other Massachusetts cities, has been requested by the state department of agriculture to do everything in its power this summer to promote agriculture. Employers are asked to get into the actual work of farming, if possible, and to enlist their employees in the same work. Reference is made to the example of Columbus, Ohio, where 3000 business men have agreed to work on a farm one day a week throughout the summer. The various boards of trade are urged also, wherever they have opportunity to do so, through a traffic...
With the advent of the war in 1914, he was one of the first to enlist, and served with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers for five years, both in France and in Palestine, and for meritorious conduct was awarded the Military Cross and advanced to the rank of captain. This long period of carnage and fighting turned his mind to the serious aspects of the struggle, and his poems and letters began to deal with "the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed," with the result that his case came up for discussion in the House...
...notable pageants, has been selected to write the Pilgrim Pageant, which will form the central feature of the celebration of the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. Work on the pageant, which is to visualize the Pilgrim story, has already begun. Professor Baker is planning to enlist the co-operation of the foremost literary and musical talent in America, and to embody in his work lyrics and musical gems by the most notable writers and composers...