Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fuming on shore, dashed off crisp communiques from the island in which he figured as "Head of the Government" (Il Capo del Governo) without bothering to specify which government. To their hearts' content Scot MacDonald and Lawyer Simon rambled idealistically on & on. Mussolini & Flandin urged the British to join them in direct demands that the League Council take punitive steps against Adolf Hitler's raising of a conscript army of 550,000 in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. MacDonald & Simon, though they had in effect told Chamberlain that he could go to the devil, were actually intimidated...
...verbal rambles Sir John said Hitler told him at Berlin that Germany would join a pact of mutual non-aggression but not a pact pledging mutual assistance against an aggressor such as the proposed Eastern Locarno (TIME, Feb. 18). At this the Latins cut in last week with questions. How did Hitler feel, they asked, about a pact in which Germany would join other States in pledging non-aggression only, while the other States further pledged mutual aid to resist aggression...
...Finally, what conference could end without whelping another Conference? Place: Rome. Date: probably May 20. Subject: Austria. At Stresa it was found impossible for Britain to join Italy and France in an iron-clad guarantee to support Austria as a bulwark against Nazidom, but Il Duce demands that this be thrashed out, insists that His Britannic Majesty's Government make up their minds...
...unfertilized female waits in the grass, flashes in answer. In one common species, investigators have found that the male flashes regularly once every 5.7 sec. and" Mr. Buck discovered that the female replies 2.1 sec. later. Exchange of signals continues until they meet & mate. But other males may join the quest for the same female, and in answering her they get their flashes into phase with the first suitor on the scene. By selecting a cruising male and responding to its signal with a flash from an electric torch 2.1 sec. later, Mr. Buck was able to attract groups...
About a dozen undergraduates will join with the Hochgobirge and Schuss-verein clubs to make up the Harvard team. Among the outstanding graduates will be Alexander H. Bright '19, Thomas D. Cabot '20, Charles D. Peirson '25 and Herbert S. Sise '34, last year's captain...