Word: joined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Palfreys will join Cabot House Masters, Academic Dean at the School of Public Health James H. Ware and Co-Master and Instructor in Psychology Janice Ware, as the only House masters unaffiliated with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...short, I don't expect to make friends in odd places, like the local bar or the cross town bus. I'm planning to meet people who share some sort of common interest with me: colleagues at work, other members of the synagogue I join, people I meet through other friends...
Finally, a former High Balsam resident named Grace Munger has reappeared in town, hectoring everyone to join the "Millennium Birthday March for Jesus" that she is organizing, spurred on, she claims, by divine inspiration. Much of her bullying is directed at Margaret, who refuses to commit herself or her church to this sort of public demonstration. "We need less display," Margaret lectures Grace, "and more unassuming deeds behind the scenes." Privately, though, Margaret worries, "Am I just being a snob...
...concluded that they had been formed not by volcanoes, as most scientists thought, but by large objects hitting Earth. It was only a matter of time, he said, before Earth would be struck again. So he launched the first organized search for big incoming objects, recruiting astronomers to join the hunt and cajoling Congress into funding it. Even the public began to take notice when, in 1994, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (which he co-discovered) crashed into Jupiter in an awesome demonstration of what could happen here...
Shewchuk took off last year to try out for the 1998 Canadian Olympic Team, but she was one of the final cuts after a broken shoulder forced her to miss a week of practice. She was invited to join Botterill on the Canadian National Team in the World championships last month but declined the offer...