Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Retiring Headmaster Fuess appears to be troubled about Andover's becoming too exclusive [TIME, May 5], and suggests a broadening of its enrollment, presumably by an increase of scholarships. This reminds me of the lady who installed an elevator in her house, and then felt obliged to join a gymnasium class in order to get the exercise of which the stairs deprived...
...were willing to sell to Russia and to anyone else, but that the postwar backlog of orders was so bad that even our own people often had to wait a year or two. None of them knew until I told them that Russia has thus far refused to join every international economic agency, from the World Bank to the International Trade Organization...
When the archeologist asked to join them in their temples, the Indians first refused; the gods might resent a stranger. Then they were reminded that the squash crop had been poor for several years. The stranger's visit could not make the gods' service much worse...
...Join the Enemy. The Interstate Commerce Commission ended the long fight over the Pullman sleeping car service by approving the plan of 56 railroads to buy it. The price: $40,202,482. Railroader Robert R. Young, who had tried to buy the sleeper service, said that his railroads would join the other...
Closed shop: only union members may be hired. Union shop: workers must join the union after they are hired...