Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eventually built, the railway not only spanned North Manchuria, but branched off from the Russian-built junction, Harbin, to traverse South Manchuria and end at Port Arthur. That fatal branch, the great Imperial Russian Minister, Count Witte, later admitted, largely provoked the Russo-Japanese war. Japan, when she had whipped the Russians, seized their southern branch from Port Arthur as far up as Changchun (140 miles below Harbin) and made it her own great, imperial iron road, the Japanese South Manchuria Railway...
...Headmaster Walter Huston Lillard. Dartmouth man and Oxonian who had been assistant to the headmaster of Andover since 1907. His 150 boys sail, row. cruise, hold cutter drills. Every spring they are taken on a cadet-training cruise to Central America. They may join a "Sea Scout" unit (nautical branch of the Boy Scouts) under the direction of Captain James P. Lewis of the Naval Reserve...
...wandered away inconsolable into the dark night. He haunted all the buildings where he had lived, and went into the Yard and touched the worn hollows in the steps of Sever where almost three generations of Harvard men had stepped. A hair of a new moon cradled in the branch of a dark pine over the white blur of University Hall. A cold wind suddenly rose. He cried to himself and plodded upstairs to the dusky loft...
...better for Christian Scientists to leave surgery and the adjustments of broken bones and dislocations to the fingers of a surgeon, while the mental healer confines himself chiefly to mental reconstruction and to the prevention of inflammation. Christian Science is always the most skillful surgeon, but surgery is the branch of its healing which will be last acknowledged. However, it is but just to say that the author has already in her possession well-authenticated records of the cure, by herself and her students through mental surgery alone, of broken bones...
...most fertile branch of Medicine today is the study of the body's glands and the chemicals called hormones which those glands manufacture and distribute through the body...