Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week, Assistant Secretary of War Louis Arthur Johnson told Army generals how he proposes to run the War Department's important Planning Branch from now on. In the February issue of Factory Management & Maintenance, he announced a plan to keep Planning Branch officers on indefinite assignment, the better to prepare industry to mobilize for war-time production. Army's traditional policy: to change officers' jobs at least once every four years...
...thighbone a year before and it had not united. To nail the knob back on the patient's thighbone, Dr. Groves needed a solid, rodlike bone. He remembered that stags' antlers, which sprout afresh every year, are homogeneous, have no marrow cavity. So he ordered a branch of antlers, carved a bone peg three inches long, three-eighths of an inch wide, and nailed the head back onto her long thighbone. "A year later [the patient] could walk so well that it was impossible to detect which had been the damaged leg. . . . Within three years the bone...
...sweet simplicity of sturdy Richard Greene, you may enjoy the fine technical effects (especially the fog) of this bloodless movie. The film's makers have had to go afield from the old love-interest, which is a pretty wet gag in Hollywood now, and have substituted a branch of the Navy as the real hero. So they escape some of the soggier romance of Boy and Girl. The scene where the sub-chaser sneaks through the mine-filled fog and destroys an enemy submarine at its base is very well done. An unworthy companion is "The Jones Family...
...School official spoke more technically, "The changes show the amazing versatility of a professor of law, who is capable of taking over a course in practically any branch of the law, at a moment's notice, and carrying it through for the remainder of the year...
...boat is soon completely out of the convict's control. It races downstream, hits an eddy, drifts back, finally carries the convict, stunned and incredulous, to the tree where the woman perches on the branch like a bird. "It's taken you a while," she says...