Word: joined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret session, the Norwegian Storting (Parliament) voted 118-to-11 last week in favor of the government's decision to join the Atlantic Pact discussions in Washington. The no votes were cast by the Storting's eleven Communists...
...West had scored. Moscow reacted with a thunderous press and radio barrage intended to intimidate all those who signed the pact, or who wanted to sign (e.g., Italy, who is being invited to join this week). In Norway's far north, where the 122½-mile Russian border is guarded on the Norwegian side by only a few ski patrols, there were rumors of Russian troop movements...
During the second week students may join one of two groups. The first will concentrate on the art, architecture and culture of the country and will visit museums and other cultural centers. The second group will concern itself more with study of the social, political, and economic life of the country, and will visit factories, newspapers and universities and attend sessions of local and national legislatures...
...June 15, venerable, but slightly doddering, History 1 will join the ranks of Former Harvard Greats. Just after World War I the renowned back-breaker assumed its present form, surveying Western Europe from the Fall of Rome to the present. It saw glorious days under President Lowell as the core of Harvard education, a pre-requisite for every undergraduate in History, Government, and Economics. In recent years, however, its age has begun to show, and its passing is no surprise...
...Sherwood soon came back because of "certain pressure that was exerted on University officials." This time he stayed here long enough to write two Pudding shows and to direct the destinies of the Lampoon, he said; he was about to have his connections severed again when he joined the Canadian Army. (He was too tall to join the A.E.F...