Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could still find fault with the Dartmouths though, for the possessive aspect that their newfound self-esteem assumed. At the DKE House, known in Hanover if not nationally as "black" (i.e. wild), a hired village cop was gustily turning away returning alumni who had forgotten their membership cards. The hospitality of the Green "Dekes" was not extended to a bedraggled "brother" from neighboring Middlebury, either...
...grade school, Joe joined the 4-H Club, which, like the Future Farmers, has trained many a fine young farmer (the 4-H Club, with membership of more than 2,000,000, differs from the F.F.A. mainly in taking both boys and girls and in not being tied so directly to high school vocational agriculture). Joe, at the suggestion of his 4-H supervisor, bought a black steer, fed it for five months, and took it to the Nashville Fat Cattle Show, where it did badly. Back home, determined to do better, Joe bought a registered Duroc gilt, then...
...they rejected Calvinism, formed an association for "the Restoration of the Ancient Order of Things." The Campbellites believe that laymen have the right and duty to preach. Their motto: "Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent." About 80% of Church of Christ membership (1,500,000) is in rural areas...
Typical of this situation were the Brattles themselves. The Reverend William Brattle was, with his cohort, John Leverett, the spiritual and intellectual leader of both Cambridge and Boston societies, gaining membership even in the Royal Society of London. His son, General William Brattle, was bound to be a success. First, he married a Saltonstall. Then, in 1771 he was made major-general of all the Royal militia in the province, although he had espoused the revolutionary cause only two years before. Upon his promotion, Brattle for some reason became deeply devoted to the mother government. When it was discovered...
...Muir (28) and Given A. Light Jr. (27), plunked down $85,000 and were approved for an exchange seat in Dumke's name. Thus, as far as the exchange could check, Muir, Dumke & Light were the youngest partnership, in terms of average age, ever admitted to Big Board membership...