Word: recruited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...here to recruit at least 100 young men of college age to go back with me and fight for France and victory. Can you think of a better way to spend your summer than in Spain, Spain of the Alhambra and legends galore? What an ideal spot! And I might add that the early Spring gives promise of unusually fine weather this summer...
What the Student Union can gain, and what it can give to the student body, is a sound working knowledge of democratic procedure, rational debate, and intelligent compromise. It has made a praiseworthy effort to recruit men from all schools of thought, but the crucial test is whether it will now become an arena for indiscriminate strife, or an enlightened and diversified forum. "Every city and house divided against itself shall not stand," and the Student Union should put its house in order before it ceases to be of value and falls of its own weight...
Pointing out government subsidies as "one means of providing funds for scholarships," the resolution went on to say that Conant's proposal to recruit the learned profession "from all 'economic levels of society" is from the student point of view sound and democratic...
...think few . . . can doubt that the learned professions suffer because they have failed to recruit from all economic levels of society...
...Izvestia as "a participant in orgies who had disgraceful relations with nuns." Frail old Vitalius was put down for "wrecking, espionage and other subversive activities." The official newsorgan Gorkovskaya Kommuna affirmed that the Brotherhood of Sobriety, an organization of young Orthodox girls, was founded by church dignitaries to recruit young women to become the sweethearts of Army & Navy men and wheedle military secrets to be sold to Germany and Japan. One Orthodox bishop was described flatly as a "Japanese agent...