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Word: join (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state the case correctly when you say that the doctors are obliged to join or to starve; you must know that the sop of private practice is not a real alternative-there is practically none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1949 | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...individual may join an organization from excellent if misguided motives-as he might join the Nazi or Communist Party in protest against social injustices; once in, the individual has little voice in the organization, which pursues policies of its own, often diametrically opposed to what the individual wanted in the first place. This process, said Golden, "creates a trap." Unless this dilemma can be resolved, the whole fiber of human society is endangered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mid-century Appraisal: ORGANIZATIONS | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...musketeer, lodged only 50 feet away in the rigging of the Redoubtable, shot him in the spine. Of the mass of tributes to Nelson, two stand out. One is that of a dying Trafalgar enemy, Spanish Admiral Gravina, who said: "I hope and trust that I am going to join the greatest hero the world almost ever produced." The other is from Sir William Hamilton-that "strange man" who, by all the rules, should have been Nelson's worst enemy, but who wrote instead: "God bless him, and shame fall on those who do not say amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Naval Person | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Leathery Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, now living in retirement in San Francisco, was getting ready for a new assignment: running the U.N. plebiscite to find out whether Kashmir should join India or Pakistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Furrowed Brow | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Died. Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi") von Hohenzollern, 62, fourth son of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and only member of the royal family to join the Nazi party, which he served as an SA officer until Goring kicked him out in the 1934 purge; of a lung ailment; in Stuttgart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 4, 1949 | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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