Word: joined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter expressing regret that he had been found "physically incapacitated for active duty." To succeed Col. Axton, who is a 57-year-old Congregationalist, the Senate was asked to confirm Lieutenant Colonel Edmund P. Easterbrook, 62-year-old Methodist Episcopalian. Chagrined, Col. Axton announced that he would join the staff of Rutgers University (New Brunswick, N. J.). The chief of Chaplains will become College Chaplain...
...Nunez De Balboa. Poets celebrating the proposed Roosevelt statue should bear in mind that Darien is an eastern dis- trict of the Republic of Panama, on the Caribbean side. Culebra Hill, upon which the Roosevelt statue will stand silent overlooking the spot where the last dikes were blasted to join ocean with ocean, is near the southern (Pacific) end of the strip of territory which alert President Roosevelt bought for $10,000,000* from the infant Republic of Panama in 1903 (Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty) the instant the Panamen revolted from Colombia, which had warily been refusing President Roosevelt...
...that he may sup in his hotel room. The bell is unanswered. Septimius descends to the lobby. There he finds the other guests of the hotel in a state of considerable confusion. The entire kitchen staff has gone on strike. Count Veruda (of unknown antecedents) has asked everyone to join him at dinner on his yacht which is lying in the harbor. Some of the ladies have demurred through lack of confidence in the count. One of these ladies, Miss Harriet Perkins, confers with Septimius. Septimius suddenly discovers that he would much like to dine with Miss Perkins. He suggests...
...York and many another U. S. school, (TIME, Nov. 28), students at the University of Wisconsin have been examining the value of military training as part of their curricula. They have decided that such training was not worth time stolen from their courses and seminars. They neglected to join the voluntary cadet corps of the university's Reserve Officers' Training Corps. The corps fell to pieces...
...July 1, the party will join at Geneva a similar group of students from the University of Geneva headed by Professor L. W. Collet, who will take charge of the combined parties. The party will climb many interesting mountains, among which are six Alpine peaks, including the Matterhorn, where the party will spend three days. On August 10 the party will visit Mr. Vesuvius, and from there will go to the Balearic Islands which lie out of the beaten tourist track and especially interesting for their wave worn coast...