Word: join
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...other business will be held Thursday. The managing committee of the American Chess Congress have written, urging that the club be represented at the National Congress to be held in New York this winter. It is hoped the club will be able to send a representative. Those wishing to join, etc., may apply to the Secretary, 9 Grays...
...robs men of their voices. Surely, after so many statements, it cannot have failed to be understood by all that the choir was formed simply and solely to act as lead for the others in the singing; that it sings in unison, so that all who attend prayers may join with it in unisonous singing, which is easy and effective; and that tunes are selected which (for the most part, at least) lie within range of all voices. It is absurd to suppose that the occupants of the pews cannot sing, since it is from among them that the choir...
Reporter (concluding not to join). Oh yes, very good. You might bring the joss question before the Faculty. You could make a fortune on josses, if the Faculty should vote for your style of prayers...
...argument ending in an entirely different way from which he began; for, whereas he stoutly urges the exclusion of the Freshmen, he magnanimously adds that he is convinced that the Class-Day Committee would admit them, provided they sit quiet on the green next to Holden and do not join in a ring round the Tree...
Young Bramah Pooter Bantam (his mother was a Partlett, they intermarried with the Woodcocks, and are really among our very nicest people) has gone to join his mamma at Cannes, where that estimable lady is trying the effects of the soft Mediterranean climate upon her too excitable American nerves. But let not the candid reader suppose that Bramah's entire summer will be passed in soothing the dear patient's fevered brow. No, he will push a leetle farther along the Riviera. The truth is, that a little pecuniary transaction took place on Pooter's departure from home, between himself...