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Word: joining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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This year a team from the Rifle Club will join in the intercollegiate service rifle matches which take place on May 18 under the auspices of the National Rifle Association and the War Department. A tentative team composed of six members of the club has been chosen as a nucleus to represent Harvard in the matches, but all positions are still open to competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rifle Club Announces | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

...took a seat near Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Later in the sessions, when Col. Lindbergh was summoned to accept the bronze Clifford Harmon trophy, he was obliged to step over Mr. Wright's feet. Nothing was said. A moment later, Assistant Secretary of Commerce MacCracken called Mr. Wright to join Col. Lindbergh in the presentation. The young man, 26, who flew to world admiration, waited for the elderly one, 56, who flew to the world's skepticism. Arm in arm they walked to the ceremony, said nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: International Conference | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

President Hernando Siles of Bolivia was sorry not to be able to join the goodwill party. He was occupied at La Paz by an impending war with Paraguay (see page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover Progress | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...Arizonans are bitter-enders. The Hunt-Colter fracas last week was only a minor skirmish on one side of the lines that will join battle again in Washington this winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Skirmish | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Three thousand miles is the ship or train distance between San Diego, Calif., and Guayaquil, Ecuador (where President-Elect Hoover was last week, see p. 10), between Manhattan and Queenstown, Ireland, between Washington and San Francisco. Trains or ships join those traveled places in a few days. Getting to the trackless Poles takes months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: On to the South Pole | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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