Word: joints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, joint backer with the U. S. Department of Commerce of Colonel Lindbergh's tour, announced a new policy: to lend money to U. S. passenger air lines to help them buy "the most modern, multi-engined airplanes of maximum safety and comfort" and thus speed the arrival of the day when engaging a sky-parlor car seat from Chicago to Denver, New Orleans or New York, and back, will be as little a novelty as it already is for a Parisian to slip over to London or Berlin for dinner...
...from the windows of Avery Mission Methodist Episcopal church in the north side of Pittsburgh last week clattered sounds of shouting, crying, handclapping. A joint commission of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church had recommended that the two churches fuse their organizations and their properties and call the combination the United Methodist Episcopal Church. They would be united "under a name that will be universal in meaning and not confine us to any race or country." Members of both denominations were glad. Efforts of 30 years were coming to fruition...
Three Symphony Hall concerts will be given as usual. At the first of these, in December the soloist will be Nikolai Orloff; at the concert in February the noted cellist Pablo Cusales will assist the club. The third concert which will be held in the spring will be a joint concert with the Yale Glee Club. This will be the first time that such a performance has been given...
...issue of April 18 the Yale Daily News anticipated a movement already set afoot to arrange a second annual joint concert of the combined Harvard and Yale glee clubs, not to take the place of the informal meeting before the football game in the fall. . . . Having so much in common both in tradition and in modern tendency", commented the News. "It is unfortunate that the Yale and Harvard clubs do not come into contact except in the informal joint concert the evening of the Yale-Harvard football game. . . . Since this does not provide an opportunity for a presentation...
...there remained only informal meetings such as the concert before the Yale-Harvard football game, Glee clubs, unlike athletic teams, are self sufficient,-competition is not a necessity. But, whereas there is no necessity, there is a very marked opportunity of intercollegiate relations of the highest type. A joint glee club concert does not even imply competition. The highest degree of cooperation and a friendly spirit between two large groups from different institutions in practice, would be the result of this sort of intercollegiate contact...