Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vessels, in 450 planes. Potent newcomers to the Fleet would be the battleship Idaho, just modernized for $14,000,000; the Ranger, first U. S. aircraft carrier built as such from the keel up; five more heavy "treaty" cruisers; destroyers Dewey and Farragut, swiftest blue-water craft ever to join the Navy and first of a long line to replace the obsolescent Wartime destroyers. It was a Fleet, the Navy could not refrain from boasting, which was not only the most powerful ever to fly the Stars-&-Stripes, but in fighting strength second in world history only to the British...
...Franco-Russian pact is not the instrument of Nicholas II and Poincare. It does not exclude Germany. Rather Adolf Hitler, if he chooses to join Russia and France in pledging ''mutual assistance" against "unprovoked aggression," will find WELCOME written on the doormat signed last week in Paris. It specifically takes care of the Hitler crochet which made Der Führer say he would sign up for non-aggression "with any country except Lithuania" month and a half ago. In the new treaty all European countries east of Germany except Lithuania are made eligible and urged to sign...
...conjunction with a protest by the American Professors Association, the delegation will join with representatives of other New England colleges including Yale in a mass demonstration to be held at the college at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon. The Harvard delegation is sponsored by the Boston Student Committee against War and Fascism, representing practically all the organizations which supported the recent peace strike...
...raise to the limit-$1.29 an oz., the "legal" silver price set years ago by Congress. In the confusion that would follow this latter move, stabilization of world exchange might be postponed indefinitely. Or confusion might be so great that England and other nations would have to join the U. S. in a stabilization conference...
This is a genuine story of a Radcliffe freshman. Feeling the need of Christian guidance, aesthetic development and healthy exercise she was advised to join up with the Young Women's Christian Association...