Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Local authorities pressed investigations, but their task was difficult: control of vast areas of sparsely populated jungle regions. Whether the Japs had had a hand in setting the blazes or not, if the fires kept up, many more Japanese would probably join those already in concentration camps...
Bill Benn was a flying archeologist in Persia in 1938 when he decided to join the Air Forces. He went to Australia as aide to George Kenney, forthwith began his first experiment on skip-bombing when he had heard the R.A.F. was using...
Lowell always politely refused to be interviewed by newsmen. He refused to speak over the radio until 1932, when he was moved to warn the nation that Japan's aggression in Manchuria foretold ultimate war, that the U.S. must join with the League of Nations in an economic boycott. He had advocated a League of Nations even before Woodrow Wilson (from whom he got some of his educational policies), and had publicly debated with the League's archfoe, Henry Cabot Lodge. Lowell was later stirred to broadcast his opposition to the Child-Labor Amendment because he thought...
Responding to the call for additional men to join the Mountain Troops, 30 College undergraduates have registered with the War Service Information Office and will be interviewed shortly by Charles M. Dole, chairman of the National Ski Patrol System. Under the new system recently announced by the Ski Association, men accepted for service in the mountain forces may apply for voluntary induction or be drafted directly into this special Army branch without undergoing the usual prescribed training period at Fort Devens or its equivalent...
...with sorrow, when a Harvard man might not know who a Yardling was, or what to do when he heard the cry of "Rheinhardt!" echoing through the Yard on a warm spring evening. "I don't suppose," he said, half-aloud, "that this year's Freshmen even know who Join the Orange Man and Bob Lampoon were...