Word: joined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hummable melodies and pounding rhythms that hit his West Virginia audience right where they lived. One woman who had traveled 36 miles from Gauley Bridge to hear the premiere was pleased as punch with the third section, which described the stretch where the upper branches of the Kanawha join forces, roar over Kanawha Falls. "There's a song I've heard every day of my life on the river," said she. "You can hear it right in the music...
Meanwhile, Selman married Deborah Mitnick, a girl from the old country who had come to join her brother in the U.S. Back at Rutgers in 1918 as a lecturer in soil microbiology, after getting his Ph.D. at the University of California, Waksman worked mostly on the soil problems of farmers. But he began asking himself a question which is still far from answered: What do microbes do to the soil, to each other, and ultimately...
Many claim that it was in revolt of these crowded conditions, others bluntly allege that the class of 1951 was younger and somewhat set off from the classes ahead-but whatever the case, only 86.9 percent of the sophomore class was asked to join clubs during last February's bicker. Of all eligibles, a total of only 80.3 percent made the grade...
...will hardly ever wear a tie or jacket and will smoke in class, and likely as not his professor will be smoking too. He will pass requirements in concentration and distribution, undoubtedly join the 17-sport intramural program, attend some 7:40 a.m. classes, and spend most of his social and extra-curricular life at his club...
...there has been no alternative but to eliminate courses, discharge faculty members, and postpone plans for modernization and other improvements. Only about 15 per cent of the country's colleges and universities fell into this category last year, but if the financial crisis continues to grow, many more will join those making retrenchments...