Word: joinings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Unitarians disclaim any desire to "shake the fruit tree" so that some fruit may fall on their side of the theological fence. But they join with Conservatives in a plea that Liberals should be "honest with themselves", and should not "play with words...
...Clubs that the Sophomore Glee Club would travel with the bsujo and mandolin players on March 6 to Haverhill for a combined concert. This is the first active step in the proposed amalgamation. The manager of the-Instrumental Clubs hopes that by next fall the 1926 glee men will join the Instrumentalists in one organization...
...been a familiar assertion of politicians that the presidential election of 1920 was a national repudiation by the American electorate of the proposal that the United States should join the League of Nations established by the "Covenant" embodied in the Treaty of Versailles and the other Peace Treaties of 1919. Yet the records show that the question was not submitted unequivocally to the people as a definite issue upon which the choice of the president should turn. By its platform, the Democratic Party declared it "favors the League of Nations as the surest, if not the only, practicable means...
...band of earnest Englishmen ventured across the Atlantic to test the quality of the New World atmosphere. They liked it well enough to stay and to invite their friends to join them. Since that date it has been the fashion for prominent Englishmen to come, at least once in a lifetime, to pass judgment on America. England has never been able to forget that America is "new". As this is actually the case, one can hardly blame her for reflecting, like the Stoics, that youth is "the time of passion, when wisdom is not attainable." And when Mr. Zangwill charges...
Admiral Eberle knows full well what the loss of the Panama Canal in war-time would mean. In 1898 he was aboard the Oregon on her famous run around the Horn to join Admiral Sampson against the Spanish fleet at Santiago, Cuba. Since then he has been twice around the world in the line of duty: once with the Atlantic Fleet on its circumnavigation in 1908, again in command of the gunboat Wheeling. Six months ago he was appointed Chief of Naval Operations. Now the umpires come to him with the verdict: "The Canal is wrecked; the fleet is wrecked?...