Word: join
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what makes the bees swarm, or what causes that sputter in your motor car, or how to shoot the sun with a sextant. If you take the trouble to ask, he will perhaps reveal to you his shy ambition to become a ranger in the government forestry service, to join the merchant marine, to be a dairy farmer, or to set up in business with his printing press...
...total on the injury list reached five yesterday, when Greeley, O'Connell and Gleason were forced to join the Gilligan brothers, as unable to play. Greeley suffered the worst injury of the year, dislocating his elbow. He will be on the sidelines about five or six weeks. O'Connell and Gleason are out only temporarily, however, suffering from blisters on the feet. They are expected back today...
Questioned by a U. S. correspondent as to whether he would "solicit" Soviet Russia to join his prospective Union, M. Briand bristled visibly. "The word 'solicit'," he snapped, "has an aristocratic air not in keeping with the democracy of the League of Nations. ... I won't say whether Russia will be 'solicited' or not. ... It will be very probable that this new institution will be open to all European nations...
President Hoover's response was a succinct telegram: "Glad to join in congratulating Mr. Garvan and the American Chemical Society on the Priestley Medal award...
...explanation for Dr. Wunder's resignation was that he wanted to identify himself "with a larger ministry whose influence and field of service is national." He said he had time and again been invited to other pulpits, had invariably declined. But now he had been asked to join the firm of Ward, Wells & Dreshman, specialists in philanthropic, educational and religious financing. In the past ten years this Manhattan firm has raised...