Word: joinings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...structure of the Pact of Locarno was the following: France . and Germany pledged themselves not to be mutually aggressive, having on their side a coupie of policemen, namely, England and Italy, watching that the pledge is not violated. It was important for Italy at that moment to join England in order to guarantee peace on the Rhine, which in reality is the peace of Europe...
...They let us approach ridiculously close. Sometimes they were too bored even to look at us, and we had to whistle to attract their attention, though often the noise of the camera would bring them out of cover, from curiosity, to join those already before the lens. In all my experience I have never encountered anything more remarkable...
...marched on Philadelphia and appeared in front of the State House where Congress was in session. Congress called on the Executive Council of Pennsylvania, meeting in the same building, for protection, but the Council was afraid to bring out the militia, as it was thought that the militia might join the mutineers. The soldiers declared that they wanted their pay and intended to take it from the treasury. They pointed their guns at the Congressional windows but did not fire them. Congress sent an urgent message for help to Washington, who was then at West Point, and without waiting...
...flood defense centred in the point of this finger. The levee at McCrea, on the east bank of the Atchafalaya in the parish of Pointe Coupee, was weakening. At last reports it appeared likely that the east-Atchafalaya system would give way, permitting waters from the Atchafalaya to join the main Mississippi stream after flooding the dry strip between the rivers. In this strip, about 100 miles long and 25 miles wide, are the parishes of Pointe Coupee, Iberville and Assumption with a population of about 80,000. Five other parishes to the south and west would be partially flooded...
...reasons for which Harvard, Yale and Princeton have failed to join in any Eastern "Big Ten" which might be formed are obviously not those of "a sort of superficial snobbery" as the Daily states. To accept such a presumption is to ignore entirely the whole shift in undergraduate attitude toward football and to base futile arguments on a threadbare theme. The Eastern Conference idea is acceptable and conceivable only in the degree in which it supports the recent rationalization of the sport. Certainly the Present regime of the western body is not toward that...