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Word: membership (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bernard Shaw, 92, applying for a two-year membership in the London Vegetarian Society, slyly suggested that the rules be amended-just this once-to make his ?1 fee good for his lifetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: After Due Consideration | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...conceived as "a business of conducting rituals, ceremonials, lessons, instructions and the sale of books and periodicals . . ." They founded AMORC, she says, "as a device to disseminate information, lessons and instructions to others for a profit." The take, she contends, is good. According to Widow Kiimalehto, the AMORC membership is now around 2,-000,000 (which Rosicrucian officials claim is a gross exaggeration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Happy Life | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...governing body of the state public-school system, will be the sole authority for weeding out "subversive" teachers; The bill requires the regents to draw up a list of all subversive organizations (the U.S. Department of Justice's list may be used as a guide) and makes membership in such organizations sufficient grounds for summary removal. The regents are also empowered to dismiss school employees for the "utterance of any treasonable or seditious word ... or the doing of any treasonable or seditious act . . ." regardless of their affiliations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Nobody Here But Us Mice? | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...parties must agree that there is an appalling lack of meat in the Dining Halls, and that there is little relief in sight. Therefore, anyone who can provide a palpable solution should receive some great reward, perhaps an honorary membership in the Student Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 4/1/1949 | See Source »

Chira said that the HLU's relation to the new body will not be official until Liberal Union members have ratified the move at their next membership meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HLU Helps Form Civil Rights Body | 3/30/1949 | See Source »

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