Word: joint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Late last winter the joint Associated Harvard Clubs-Alumni Association Committee charged with considering commemoration for Harvard World War II dead had announced itself in favor of adding a theatre wing to Memorial Hall. In response to wide student support for an "Activities Center," expressed repeatedly in Student Council polls, the recommendation went on to suggest converting current Memorial Hall basement quarters of the modern Psycho-Acoustic Laboratories into "meeting places and offices for extra-curricular groups...
...before Labor Day, he fired off a message calling for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, extension of social security and health insurance, an increased minimum wage (from 40? to 75?). Then he climbed aboard his newly refurbished railroad car, the Ferdinand Magellan, to carry his message to a joint A.F.L. and C.I.O. rally in Detroit, to four other Michigan cities, and Toledo...
Except for a fine old stucco church on the weed-grown plaza, the sleepy rubber town of Cametá has only two noteworthy buildings: a nondescript, 10-ft.-square structure housing a brand-new well, and a little white municipal health center. Both are the work of a joint U.S.-Brazilian organization called Servico Especial de Saude Publica (Special Public Health Service...
From 1939 to 1944, Oxnam was bishop of the Boston area. There he had one notable success - persuading Cardinal O'Connell to sign a joint statement with him condemning the 1942-43 wave of anti-Semitism in Boston-and one small failure, in his drive for ever-increasing personal efficiency. The latter was his scheme for hooking a dictation machine, to his car battery, so that he could park at spare moments and dash off a few letters. After finding himself marooned a few times with a dead battery, he abandoned the experiment. But he was the first bishop...
...monarchs actually to wear the crown, which is considered the property of the state, not of the monarch). Juliana will swear to "protect the general and individual freedom . . . the general and individual prosperity ... as it is the duty of a good Queen to do." Then the chairman of the Joint Session of the States-General will, on behalf of the sovereign people, pronounce the proud and wary formula: "By virtue of the Constitution, we accept you ... as Queen...