Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after 72 hours of such pounding, Sevastopol fell. Into Russian hands fell a vast booty, from shoe polish to crated bombers. Nearly 25,000 more prisoners went behind the barbed wire, to join 37,000 taken elsewhere in the Crimea (some 50,000 others were killed). In the harbor, Red engineers got to work. Soon...
...northern and western Europe and of North America, chiefly industrial, grew fast in the past century, from 115 million in 1800 to 435 million in 1940. But most of them will grow no more. The U.S., an exception, will increase to some 160 million by 1975, will then join the other dominant nations' decline...
Editor La Cossitt plans no changes in the tone of Collier's (wartime circulation ceiling: 2,860,000). His immediate task is smart coverage of invaded Europe. He has some star reporters for this crucial job: William B. Courtney and Martha Gellhorn are already in England. Soon to join them is Reporter Gellhorn's husband, who has succeeded in making literature out of war reporting, burly, newly-bearded Ernest Hemingway...
...Hoffman, having declined an invitation to join the Harvard crew, plans to wing Wisconsin-way with a gleaming multi-facet job which may men wedding bells the' he claims otherwise. G. Grove, having previously committed himself, will assume added responsibility on this leave, and P. Harty, attorney-at-law and platoon-commander-extraordinary, will do likewise...
Said Methodist Publishing House's Dr. Nolan B. Harmon Jr.: "America is fighting for her life, but we, the greatest Protestant denomination in this nation, cannot officially join in the struggle. I do not forget that there was another occasion when a Roman Government official washed his hands of a dark and dirty business. . . . We have spent more time calling attention to the plight of 600 Methodist conscientious objectors than we have to twice that many crosses over dead Methodist boys in the far-flung corners of this earth...