Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edward Jones is a blond-haired native of Liverpool who ran away from home when he was 16. He wandered about Liverpool and Plymouth until he had passed the minimum age requirement to join the Marines and just after his 18th birthday signed up in his Majesty's service. After a time in barracks he was stationed aboard the "Newcastle" after the outbreak of war and has remained there ever since...
...defense, they do so at their own peril. The orders which I have given as Commander in Chief of the United States Army and Navy are to carry out that policy-at once." He promised that in defense waters the Navy would convoy ships of any flag choosing to join such convoys...
Since the cost of building the hospital was too ambitious a burden for the University, the American Red Cross later agreed to join the venture and to pay for its operating expenses, while the medical staff of the Harvard Unit were to assume responsibility for its scientific direction. The entire organization was, and is now, under the single direction of Dr. John E. Gordon, of the Harvard Medical School...
Temporary residents of Cambridge, including wives, mothers and sisters of College students, have been invited to join the Society of Harvard Dames, meeting at Phillips Brooks House on second and fourth Thursdays of each month and charging an annual membership...
...were the denials of U.S., Brazilian and Portuguese officials that as a birthday present Portugal had given Brazil a first lien on the Azores, the Cape Verde and possibly other Portuguese islands in the Atlantic. A score of years ago there was actually a popular movement in Portugal to join Brazil, her onetime colony which has far outgrown her. To many statesmen it now seems at least as logical that Brazil should protect Portugal's possessions as that the U.S. should protect Britain's. And if Brazil is not strong enough to do so alone, then other American...