Word: joining
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...later, criminal adaptation has two shades of meaning: 1) the whole general ''Racket" of preying on society by any and all illegal means, especially by selling dope, liquor, women, gambling; 2) the specific racket, as perfected by Chicago's underworldlings with many variations, of making tradesmen join a "union" and pay "dues" for protection from the gangster's "mob," who smash florist windows, overturn laundry wagons, bomb grocery stores, burn unfinished buildings...
...neath Florida's sun, not California's - was soon discounted as a merely characteristically florid sales talk by the ageing mas ter of finance. Meantime, many thousands of Trans america's 200,000 stockholders wrote and traveled to the company's 400 branches to join in this rare game where Little Shots could play pool-partners with Big Shot...
Rare have been the scientists' wives who could join actively in their husbands' scientific pursuits. In most such unions, the couples have met and worked together as young students. Marie Sklodowska was 27 when she first knew Pierre Curie at the Sofbonne. The George Frederick Dicks (she was Gladys R. Henry) worked together at McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (Chicago), developed their famed scarlet fever test nine years later as man & wife. University of Pennsylvania has its Clarks-Dr. Elliott Round and Eleanor Acheson Linton-who have done notable work together on cell microscopy...
...Horace Plunkett, head of the Irish Agricultural Society, seeing his poetry, asked Russell to join the movement, and it was in this way that AE became interested in farming and economics. He has since been a believer in agriculture and its benefits to civilization. It is his theory that in the farming population lies the future of every nation. The man of the city is blighted by the noise and confusion, and if ever the farming population should cease to be, civilization could not last more than three generations, he claims...
When Captain Roberts went to his lonely blockhouse on the Afghan border he left another man's wife behind him. She did not write; he wondered why. When Lieutenant Nicholson came to join him, Roberts found out the reason: his second-in-command was now first with the lady. They became mortal enemies, but then there was a border uprising. Nicholson was badly wounded, and Roberts brought him in at the risk of his own life. They shook hands and agreed the woman was not worth it. On leave together (by now they were inseparable) they met her again...