Word: joining
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...small group of visitors failed to join in the spirit of the occasion, however, forming solemn cliques around the new cars to discuss compression ratios and transmission. These connoisseurs sustained a notible sobriety in the midst of so much bubble gum, as they added wrinkles of their own to the rigors of Chevrolet's road test. The "knee test" figured frequently in this scrutiny: the test consists of placing one knee squarely in the middle of a door panel and pressing violently inward. The metal is then judged on rebounding quality and resonance. This kind of test is necessarily performed...
...Oklahoma over Oklahoma A & M, 41-14, its 31st victory in a row, to join Princeton as one of the two top unbeaten, untied teams of the season and fortify the Sooners' claim to No. 1 U.S. honors...
Teacher McGill persuaded four of his colleagues in the social sciences to join him in an experiment. He picked 185 pairs of students, each pair closely matched in ability. To one group the teachers gave the usual homework assignments, to the other, none at all. Last week in High Points, official magazine of New York City public high-school teachers, McGill made his report...
...large insurance companies or big underwriters outside the 17 threatened serious competition, said Stebbins, they were cut in on the business. But if a "little fellow" tried to join the group, he was ignored. The result, said Stebbins, was that the same investment bankers always got the business of the same corporations...
Under the committee's proposals Radcliffe students would be allowed to join Harvard organizations, members could, with Dean's Office permission, appear on radio and television programs, and meetings of groups would be permitted in the Yard...