Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McCaleb has been in charge of all the communication plans for the expedition. He has personally supervised the preparation of the apparatus which is the most elaborate and modern available, and has chosen the personnel for this branch of the expedition...
...that it had power to adjudicate only those disbarment cases which came up through the lower courts. Judge Atwood denied this allegation, used it as a point of departure for a broad and far-reaching decision. He declared that the power of disbarment exists in the judicial branch of the Government, independent of any constitutional or statutory grant. Said he: "It is not always easy to determine what objects are naturally within the range or orbit of a particular department of government, but it will scarcely be denied that a primary object essentially within the orbit of the judicial department...
...Reconstruction Finance Corporation is ready to lend to banks and to buy their preferred stock if they need it to carry loans, but the banks which might be willing to do what the R.F.C. suggests are finding it difficult to meet the wishes of another branch of the government which conducts the examination of banks...
Friends. In much the same tradition, 31 years later, nearby Swarthmore College was founded by the Hicksite branch of the Quakers. Both colleges have remained small, progressive, Quakerish in independence but non-parochial. Less than half of Haverford's 44 professors and less than 17% of its 300 students are Quakers. In 1931 the Haverford charter was amended to admit non-Quakers to the Board of Managers. But Haverford still conducts Fifth-Day Meetings on Thursdays and last week's celebration included a quiet Sunday Friends' Meeting...
...touching appropriateness in the book's last sentences: 'The silence in my room, when I got up here at last, was stunning, and the moonlight almost yellow. The moon's hiding, now, behind one of the elms, and the evening star shining above a dead branch. A few other stars are out, but very dim. It's a night far from our time, far even from our world. Not an owl hooting, but the honeysuckle still sweet. And so, my most dear, here endeth the tale! Good-night...