Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...July 4, the Stars-&-Stripes come down all over the islands except over U. S. naval stations and military reservations. Meantime, the U. S.-which freely admitted after the London Naval Conference that the islands would be difficult to defend against invasion-will theoretically have induced other Powers to join in guaranteeing Philippine neutrality...
...such popular periodicals as TIME would join in the advocacy of this much-needed legislation, two-term presidential administrations will go the way of the "lame duck" session of Congress...
...Metropolitan Club dinner all but 15% of the old association's membership agreed to join the new one. Dissenters, whom Mr. Carlisle hopes may later reconsider: Henry Latham Doherty's Cities Service, the Harley Lyman Clarke interests' Utilities Power & Light, Howard Colwell Hopson's Associated Gas & Electric, Frank Theodore Hulswit's American Commonwealths Power. Unlike the N. E. L. A., the Edison Institute will not be open to manufacturers...
...these people think they are respectively Eve, Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Menelaus, Marc Antony and Octavius, then they must be. And it will be a good thing for G. B. S., he wryly points out, to get an accurate picture of historical characterizations for once. Unruffled, Shaw agrees to join the venture if he can write in a scene, well prefaced, showing the evils of vivisection and the boon of vegetarianism. Critics will be a pair of idiots who believe themselves to be God and St. Peter...
...Wells' latest novel were a bit greater, the word "Blup" would doubtless join the Sargasso Sea of English Slang, and if Mr. Wells were not quite so competent in his own regular way, "Blup" would no doubt never be heard of. The theme of the novel is based on the same stale social satire which has been poured by the hogs-heads from the dripping quills of surviving English radicals of the nineties and of American cynics of the twenties. The hero is a prig conceived to be representative of the insignificant conservative. The author explains, by the story, that...