Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rebuilding is necessary, though, for graduation and the war have shot away the entire bow half of last year's undefeated eight. Bruce Pirnie, bow; Sam Goddard, 3; and Captain Sherm Gray, 4; all left via the diploma route, and number 2 man, Paul Pennoyer, is departing to join the Naval Reserve...
Since America entered the war on December 7 fewer men have left College to join the armed forces than was the case over a similar period in World War I. So far this winter there has been far less tendency than in the spring of 1917 for undergraduates to rush blindly into the service before receiving their degrees, according to Dean Phelps of the Records Office...
...further explained that he had no real basis of comparison by which to judge between the spirit of Harvard men in this and the last war, but that his office has been handling on an average 120 students a week who are considering leaving the University to join the Army or Navy, to enter defense industry, or to enroll in some pre-service training school...
...boat commanders, William B. Mellor Jr. and Frank Toughill wandered about downtown Philadelphia, talked German in a crowded automat, peering suspiciously at defense plants, asked a traffic cop questions in broken English. Only interest they aroused was from a small boy on roller skates. Said he: "Oh, boy! Join the Navy and see the world...
...plenary session, which concluded the conference, it was decided that the Intercollegiate Community Service should not join with the International Student Service, an independent youth organization sponsored by Max Lerner, Herbert Agar, and other prominent liberal thinkers...