Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rubber workers began staging sit-downs in 1934, when John L. Lewis was only the hard-boiled boss of the hard-boiled Miners' Union. Akron was then known as the toughest anti-union town in the U. S. outside of Detroit. United Rubber Workers of America, later to join C. I. O., moved in in 1935. By the time this year's Sit-Down epidemic struck, both Akron's workers and Akron's businessmen were past the primary grades, thoroughly accustomed to the idea and practice of unionism. When Firestone Tire & Rubber...
...appeared in the Klondike rapids of the Yukon River, Yukon is at present administered by a federal government Comptroller and a Territorial Council of three. Yukon's sole representative in the Dominion Parliament since October. 1935 has been Mrs. George Black, a dashing woman who left Chicago to join the gold rush of 1898. She exploded angrily last week when Premier Pattullo announced his acquisition, expressed "surprise" that no statement had been made "either in Parliament or by the Prime Minister...
When the Student Council and the representatives of the Swimming Team decided last night to hold over until next year action on the Team's ambition to join the ranks of major sports, certainly they were making a grave mistake for the cause of swimming in the College. For either swimming has got a case in its favor, or it has not got a case, but as dexterous a feat of sidestepping and punchpulling as was shown last night will scarcely convince the College that there is anything to be said in the natators' favor...
...result of increasing interest and the fact that it is a major at a majority of eastern colleges, basketball last month was voted the sixth major sport at Harvard by the committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. Should the mermen join the ranks next fall they will qualify as the second team to get Number One rank at Harvard in the last 24 years...
...Nessie," said Sir David, "must be thousands of years old and belongs to the postglacial period. . . . He is so tame I expect little trouble in bringing him home. In fact I have invited the boys of St. Bede's Roman Catholic College in Manchester to join me in the monster hunt...