Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...body of Peter's murdered father was coming back from Marseilles on the light cruiser Dubrovnik, the same ship that had carried Alexander to France and to death. In a very simple coffin he lay. One of the last acts of Queen Marie before rushing to Paris to join her son was to have the admiral's uniform in which her husband was killed changed to the service dress of a Serbian general, in which he had spent most of his life. Nations hurried to do him honor. From Rome Benito Mussolini wired shore batteries to fire salutes...
...student stood up on the platform, began: "I only wish to bring a message to the enslaved Italian students who are being tricked. ..." A professor shoved him from the microphone. While the guttersnipes joyfully rose to join battle with their gentlemanly fellows, the visiting Italians were quietly led out a back door. The brawl lasted 15 minutes. Afterward 1,000 students met in the college stadium for a rousing Fascist-cursing rally. Eleven ringleaders were suspended from college...
...clock has been set as the hour when the party will leave from Pierce Hall to travel to the Country Club, where undergraduates, members of the faculty of the Engineering School, and any others interested in engineering problems will join in the festivities...
...first meeting tonight, is attempting to show the undergraduate this other side. It possesses an objective; that of helping to defeat former Mayor Curley. In accomplishing this aim, it offers volunteers not only the chance to see how a political campaign and politicians work, but also the chance to join in the fight through organizing rallies and doing field work. A volunteer may find that here as well as in a political club, he can waste time, but at least he will learn something about the inefficiency and graft which deliver mortal blows at utopian schemes...
...unready writer, Herbert Hoover would be inarticulate without the cliches of politics. Written with obviously frowning care, The Challenge to Liberty is thick with such muddy passages as this: "Today, these complexities, added to the aftermaths of war, loom large, and the voices of discouragement join with the voices of other social faiths to assert that an irreconcilable conflict has arisen in which Liberty must be sacrificed upon the altar of the Machine Age." Liberals will be surprised to hear Herbert Hoover speaking in defense of Liberalism but will soon discover that what he means by Liberalism...