Word: joining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Army recruiting officers are expected to be good salesmen. Upon the city streets they often select their dejected-looking prospects, slap them on the backs, say: "Brace up ... be a man . . . join the Army ... it is warm now down in Texas and Georgia; there are hopes and thrills out in Hawaii...
Recreation and social work carried on among the youth of Italy by the Knights of Columbus, the Y. M. C. A. and various Methodist organizations are coming rapidly to a halt as the new "Young Fascist" organizations, the Balilla and the Avanguardia, are forcibly superceding them. Youths join the Balilla at 8, the Avanguardia at 14 and, if approved, the Fascist party...
...Hallowell, has from his undergraduate days onward been widely known and honored beyond, as well as within, the immediate circle of his own university. Mindful of the mutual interests and purposes which Mr. Halloowell served with high integrity and generous enthusiasm, the representatives of the Yale Athletic Association join with gratitude in commemorating his distinguished service...
...this reason I gladly join the gentleman from Connecticut in revolt against the President of the United States...
Miss Bainter is most opt mistie about the modern stage. "People often come and ask me to join some uplift society or other, but nothing is to be accomplished by these methods. The drama is going through a cycle, and will come through stronger than ever. The present phase is just transient...