Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November, 1876, at conference at Springfield organized the Intercollegiate Football Association with Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton as members. Yale refused to join but assisted in compiling rules for the game...
House Organization. On paper the Democrats had a bare majority with which to organize the 72nd House. Even if Republicans won in New Jersey they would still be two votes shy of control. Farmer Laborite Paul John Kvale, slick-haired young Congressman from Minnesota, might join with the G. O. P. for organization purposes but his vote would no longer be the balance of power. Democratic chances were also enhanced by mutterings from Wisconsin where eight "Progressive" Republicans, under the leadership of cross-eyed, frock-coated little John Mandt Nelson, announced they would ditch their party on the organization vote...
With British mills more active, consumption in October running 69,383 bales higher than a year ago, it was natural that cotton should join the movement, that last week's price of $33.50 per bale should be 22% higher than the year's low. Although the crop is large, unfilled orders for cotton cloth jumped 51.7% during October...
...France came home and brought home Daughter Jose. To French reporters she babbled, "America is a fairyland! Its women are beautiful! Its character is best interpreted by its man-built wonders, les skyscrapers! I certainly hope to return. It is possible, however, that I shall accept an invitation to join a French expedition which is going to Timbuktu, crossing the Sahara desert in caterpillar automobiles...
...grew up too, began to go into the wheatfields with Cossacks. Mendel and his wife, married too long, were sick of the sight of each other. One fine day a letter came from Shemariah: he was doing well in the U. S.. would soon send them money to join him. When the time came they left idiot Menuchim behind with friends. They found Shemariah was indeed doing well in the U. S., but Mendel and his wife never got acclimatized; their bowels yearned for Menuchim. They were about to send for him when the War broke out. When...