Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mother, whose maiden name was Flynn, was an Irish nationalist. ... In my Sunday school . . . my sister Eileen and I were evicted for having pernicious views." Along the rocky road to fame, as the writer of a zany best-seller and slick Hollywood scenarios, Ruth McKenney paused to join the Communist Party. Her corpuscles promptly began to tingle again. A 1940 sample: "The Second Imperialist War ... is a fight among thieves, a bloody quarrel among the vultures...
...vote had been counted. Score: for a republic, 4,103,000; for the King, 179,275. Promptly the National Assembly had proclaimed the People's Republic. There was nothing left for Bulgaria's nine-year-old Simeon II to do but join his grandfather, Italy's ex-King Victor Emmanuel, in Egypt. This week, Simeon and his mother packed for exile...
...they do recover sufficient composure to compete for a berth among the marathon men, Crimson newcomers will join an aggregation that complied one of the best records in college history. Among last spring's Varsity victims were Tufts, Connecticut, Rhode Island State, Holy Cross, Yale, Dartmouth and Princeton...
...where faculty-student relationships might prove difficult to those men unaccustomed or unwilling to "seek out the teacher," the situation is much more favorable in the University's extracurricular activities. During the fall, men in the Yard will be asked to join groups interested in everything from Chinese idols to Bulgarian chess. Individuality is an after-hours proposition, especially since classwork on the mass production level leaves little room for the personal slant. Mr. '50 will fiind in a College of 5500 men a least a handful who feel the same way about the Russians, or like back-handed Cribbage...
...Tuesday's activities meeting, the Freshman class will hear representatives of most of the many undergraduate organizations, from mountain climbing to stamp collecting, outline the aims and purposes of their organizations and explain how new comers may join. The speakers will be introduced by Ray A. Goldberg '48, who emphasized the importance of this meeting to new students wishing to leaven their first year's work with outside activities. PBH punch will also be served at this meeting...