Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United States, seven long years ago, declared a state of emergency, and called for united action against the economic and social ills that afflicted "one-third of a nation." Back in those days, if memory serves correctly, many Harvard Alumni did not see it that way. Harvard did not enlist in that war with unanimity. Many thought that it was much more important to balance the budget...
Many of the same persons who refuse to enlist in the war to save democracy by peaceful means are now attacking freedom of discussion in our universities. Two such offences are enough to raise serious suspicion. We may put our confidence in the ability of these men to arm the nation, but we will never let them seize the sole right to speak, think, and act for American democracy...
...during a half-lifetime of residence in the country as well as a dislike of the Axis governments prompted him to join up with the French Foreign Legion at the outset of the struggle, but as an American citizen he encountered difficulties which made it impossible for him to enlist. Balked in this first attempt to serve, he spent five months in Paris first working under Andre Morize, professor of Romance Languages, in the Propaganda Bureau, and then working for the Czech National Committee...
...College has increased the size of its first-year class over the normal 1,000, officials explained yesterday, to take care of possible vacancies in case any students are called into the government services or enlist voluntarily...
When war broke out year ago, the duty of the able-bodied members of Hollywood's British colony received plenty of attention. Some thought they should hurry home to enlist, as did handsome, mustachioed David Niven. Loudest blast of the debate came from London last week, where British Producer Michael Balcon snorted "deserters" at the "scores of producers, directors, writers, artists and technicians who have migrated to Hollywood and Manhattan since Munich." Next day came Hollywood's concrete answer: $6,-000,000 worth of British talent, including such performers as Madeleine Carroll, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Charles Laughton...