Word: joined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which the Union troops left for the same place. Amid fanfares of music, an endless line of soldiers, dressed in queer parodies of the Confederate uniform, passes under the balcony. If you are near enough to the front, you can quite plainly hear them racing around back stage to join the column again...
...Minister. When the chance came he turned his back on it. A life of political ambiguity had evidently settled his pristine urge. During the war he became Director General of Recruiting and author of the famed Derby Scheme, which gave the nation's manhood its last chance to join the colors before conscription overtook it. He next became Secretary of State for War, a post which he relinquished in 1918 to become one of the most popular Ambassadors to France that Britain has ever had. And in 1920, "tired of the limelight," he resigned. Urged to become Secretary...
...Scout headquarters at Evanston, Ill., announced the formation of a new troop. The members had long played with each other and with some other boys who would join the troop as soon as they should become 12 years old. Until enough of the playmates to start the troop became 12 years old, all had played under the personal direction of Vice President Charles Gates Dawes...
...LEON) DAVIDOVITCH TROTSKY, 50, a Jew, from early manhood until the revolution braved the perils and vicissitudes that beset all revolutionaries, although he did not join the Communist Party until 1917. Undoubtedly the most brilliant man in Bolshevist circles, even more brilliant, say many, than was Lenin, he is today shorn of power and has been completely excommunicated from the party. Yet, he is not a nonentity; for he is the leader of the opposition and he is uncompromisingly outspoken in his criticism of Stalinism...
Undergraduates and graduates, athletes and more spectators can join hands over the action of the Athletic Association in retaining Mr. Arnold Horween for another season as chief moulder of Harvard football destiny. Whatever has been the result of his first two years' efforts, indifferent success or a gradual building up process, there has never arisen a question as to his pre-eminent qualities as a gentleman and a worthy tutor of young men in the important field of sportsmanship...