Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graphic flow of visual imagery, this picture deals with men and women in Australia during the gold rush. The men worked in a harsh country, with a fever that made the values of normal life as remote as the riches of hallucination driving them on. The women came to join them, an adventurous shipload of outcasts, each numbered and assigned in lottery to waiting pioneers. One of the women dies coming over, and the man, a telegraph operator, originally assigned to Bride 68, gets left in the new draw. The picture is a study of what this does to Telegrapher...
...join in hailing "Copey." He cannot be different at seventy from himself at sixty or at fifty. Doubtless he wears the same mustard suits, has the same temperamental aversion to drafts, the same outmoded predilection for Kipling and Dickens, and the same sadistic joy in making a late comer to his class or reading room miserable. He cannot have changed. And in days when second-rate academicians clutter the pages of "Who's Who" with learned degrees, and still bore their students; when university statisticians reckon in card catalogues the efficiency records of the faculty members, it is good...
...several organizations such as the Milton Secondary Education Board that are seeking for a solution of this problem, but they are hampered on all sides by the fact that they represent only one of the three elements affecting the situation. To reach any definite and beneficial solution they must join hands with the colleges and the Board of Entrance Examiners. Until all three act at once and in accord, it is hopeless to expect any improvement, for the interrelation that exists among three forces makes it impossible for one to move without the other. It is not within the ability...
...yellow-dog" contract, in Labor's parlance, is one under which men are employed on condition they will join no union...
United, of which Frederick Brant Rentschler is president and which, with backing from National City Bank (president: brother Gordon Sohn Rentschler), has been expanding ambitiously and profitably, had bid for control of NAT and. as some saw it, for supremacy of the indus- try. United sought to join NAT's New York-Chicago route with its own Boeing system (Chicago-San Francisco) in a transcontinental line, perhaps to be linked with future United-Zeppelin trans-Atlantic operations...