Word: joined
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During that struggle, Harvard played an active role in supporting the effort to defeat the Axis Powers, according Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman '31. Classes were accelerated to allow students to graduate early and join the armed forces. Harvard's president during the war, James Bryant Conant '14, played a large role in developing the atomic bomb. And the University had a special school to train administrators who helped run the American district in Germany after that country's surrender...
...Dinkins succeeds, New York would join the growing ranks of cities with black mayors. African Americans occupy just 1.5% of elective offices at the federal, state and local level, though they account for 11% of the voting-age population. But 22 years after the ground-breaking 1967 elections of Carl Stokes in Cleveland and Richard Hatcher in Gary, more than 300 American cities have black mayors, including 25 with populations over...
...diverse as primeval forests, alien spacecraft and New York City brownstones. The shifting patterns of light chase M around and dance with her in a malevolent pas de deux, whimsically trapping her and letting her go as her mood shifts from hope to despair. The light and sound join forces to overwhelm M, sometimes leaving her a helpless lump on the floor...
...French navy dispatched a Dassault-Breguet Atlantique patrol aircraft from Dakar, Senegal, to join the search, the Defense Ministry said...
ALTHOUGH Harvard is an outstanding academic institution, it has much to offer outside the classroom. Don't be afraid to try something you've never seen or even heard of before. Play rugby, join a dance class, write for one of the dozens of publications--even if you've never done anything like that before. It could be the greatest experience of your life...