Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last six months I have remained aside from the controversy on whether we should join in this war." So said Herbert Hoover last week breaking his silence on the great issue. Then, speaking on a nationwide broadcast, he told where he stood: against convoys and against going to war. Unlike Colonel Lindbergh his reasoning was not that the War was none of the U.S.'s business, nor that Britain was bound to lose. Said...
...join this war we must join in earnest. We shall lose it any other way. If we join we must at once increase our Army to 3,000,000 or 5,000,000 men. We would have to use a larger part of our immediate manufactures to supply our own Army. We would have to use a larger part of our air production to defend our own coast cities. We would have to at once increase our protections for the Pacific Coast and our island possessions. . . . We would have to hold merchant ships in reserve to carry troops to protect...
Originally suggested by the cheerleaders in the belief that students might yell louder if placed with their friends, the innovation amounts to letting undergraduates sit virtually wherever they please. For if a man living in one House prefers to join his friends in another, a switch is perfectly agreeable...
...Navy has announced to the Committee that it will offer undergraduates an opportunity to join a Harvard Squadron. Men selected for this group will go through their eight months training period at the same base, and will be kept as a unit until they become officers...
...lifelong military careerist with no political experience, General Tsolakoglou called on all Greeks, soldiers or private citizens, to cease fighting. "Any further bloodshed would be senseless and suicidal," he said. "Everyone should join in giving thanks for the resurrection of Greece and stop fighting for foreign interests...