Word: joinings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union, which is the common club of the University, is situated on the corner of Harvard and Quincy Streets. All men connected with the University are eligible for membership, up to the physical capacity of the building. Those who were not members last year and wish to join, may do so at either the Bursar's Office on the main floor of Lehman Hall, or at the Hemenway Gymnasium. The due for the year, which are charged on the University term bill, are ten dollars...
...Rebbecca Jane Gilleland, was born in Philadelphia in 1831. Hardly out of swaddling clothes she was carried to Texas with the rest of her family so that her father could join the fight to free Texas from Mexico. He did, and after it was over he and his wife were murdered by Indians, and Rebecca Jane, eight years old, and her young brother were carried away by the savages. Finally they knocked her on the head and ran him through the body and left them to die. But rescuers came...
...passed. Apprehension grew. Planes put out from Hawaii. Eighteen destroyers of the line were ordered from Samoa to join in the search, and proceeded "with orderly haste" to do as they were told. That hope was dying became manifest in the furious urgency with which Navy officials investigated the most obviously fabricated reports of the plane's discovery. Somewhere in the corrugated deserts of the Pacific the ship floated, her men in a torment of thirst, staring at the horizon, or somewhere a mass of torn fabric and splintered wood served as a roost for gulls who waited for certain...
...mathematical theory. A skilled inventor, he answered correspondence concerning the Mason hydrophone, by which United States and British warships detected submarines during the War. A good provider and thoughtful husband, he packed his wife and three children off to a cool northern camp when hot weather came, planning to join them when he might...
...TIME, May 18) he managed by process of amalgamation to swell his party's numbers from 100 to 150, making it the second largest party in the Diet. He began negotiations with the Seiyuhonto President, M. Tokonami, urged him to join the Seiyukai Party which would then have an absolute majority of the votes with 266 seats...