Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...military use, the Navy wanted to have the Los Angeles scout experimentally with the fleet. For this, the express permission of Great Britain, France and Japan was necessary. Last week, permission granted, orders were posted for the Los Angeles to proceed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, thence for Panama, to join the Navy's winter maneuvers...
...Elihu Root, now almost 86. marched in his fur-collared overcoat into a Senate committee room one morning last week and took a solitary seat at the end of a long table. He had come to explain to the Foreign Relations Committee his formula whereby the U. S. could join the World Court. But the Committee kept Mr. Root waiting 30 minutes. Behind him rose the loud chatter of peace-loving women who packed the room. Mr. Root ran his fingers impatiently over his short grey mustache...
...Blacklidge's story: She was approached by an acquaintance of her late husband who persuaded her to join the game at the St. Nicholas Hotel. With his stake, she won $207,000. The gamblers then demanded that she produce $50,000 in cash as an evidence of good faith before they would pay off. She went to Chicago, first told Mr. Litsinger that she needed the money for business purposes, later apprising him of the real circumstances. Then she returned to Springfield. Accompanied by Mr. Litsinger's nephew Fred, a timid youth of 27, she met the gamblers...
...Albert Einstein, walked slowly up & down the streets of Pasadena, Calif, last week. According to his usual custom he wore no hat. His stubborn hair stood on end, its whiteness making his brown eyes seem black. He probably did not realize that the U. S. scientists who occasionally join him in his daily stroll hold their own hats at their sides out of deference to him. Dr. Einstein had been in Pasadena for three weeks. His Frau Elsa had established him comfortably in a seven-room English bungalow. Every morning he works in his study, in afternoons chats with Pasadena...
...obliterating all traces of the nest, and drags herself back to the sea. Six to eight weeks later the eggs hatch under the warm sand. The baby turtles dig their way out into the warm sunshine, there to learn the art of using their flippers before trooping off to join the rest of their kind...