Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remaining 563 members of the class are not listed as belonging to any organization of the purely social variety. While a few men may have forgotten to include their clubs in the Album life blanks the number is not large. It is certain, at least, that the club membership of the graduating class is not less than the figure given above...
Parlor magic, unlike most other divisions of skill and science, is far from dominated by professionals. Unknown to the public are numberless amateurs. They play a game of baffle among themselves. Some 500 members, amateur and professional, of the Society of American Magicians (total membership about 1,650), held their annual convention last week in Manhattan and brotherly baffling was the order of the hour. The magicians dined and danced. Then, in secret session, they baffled each other and exchanged secrets about new or improved apparatus, magicianly "patter" (conversation) and humor, the art of distracting the attention of the tricked...
...Membership in the Association of Harvard Chemists is open to all those who graduate from Harvard, having concentrated in the field of chemistry. The purposes of the organization are to aid the Division of Chemistry at Harvard in any way possible, to further good fellowship among Harvard chemists by meeting at each convention of the American Chemical Society and occasionally in Cambridge, and to aid its members in their professional advance through its Employment Committee of which Professor Grinnell Jones of the Chemistry Department is Chairman...
...Ever since the close of the War the American government has consistently taken this position. It has never accepted membership on the reparations commission. The comparatively small sums which it receives under the Dawes Plan are applied solely to the settlement of the claims judicially ascertained by the mixed claims commission (the United States and Germany), and to the repayment of the expenses of the American Army of Occupation at Coblenz...
...from them that holders of aviation patents finally formed a holding company, Manufacturers' Aircraft Association, in which nearly all U. S. aviation patents were pooled, each contributor having an equity in the profits on all the patents. General Motors has, all along, been represented in the Association through membership of two subsidiaries, Dayton-Wright Co. and Fisher Bodies Corp...