Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggestion as to the saving that could be effected during this depression by dispensing with a certain percentage of worthless and vicious curs? Why should dogs dispute for food with babies during the coining winter? I know that breeding dogs for profit is a highly commercialized, if somewhat disgusting, branch of our economic system, and that we must not step too harshly upon the dog industry: but it does seem as if something could be proposed at this opportune time to at least mitigate the do" nuisance...
...Fellow can be regarded as unrestricted, provided the scheme of work meets with the approval of the Committee of Management and of the British university to which the Fellow is assigned. The Fellowships are the most liberal aids awarded to candidates who have shown both distinction in some branch of learning and have also presented a definite plan of study or research abroad...
...expert) chose from the more than 1,000,000 signatures submitted, awarded prizes. First prize of $1,000 went to Thomas Leonard of Lincoln, Neb. Edward of Wales signed once, for a Michigan girl, added "Hope you win the prize" (she did not), then besought Waterman's London branch to stem the flood of letters. Most signatures of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (post-convention), Charles Spence Chaplin, Anton Joseph Cermak were disqualified as rubber-stamps. Revealed as refusers-to-sign were: George V, Paul von Hindenburg, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, John Davison Rockfeller Sr., Al Capone. Most reluctant (one each...
Speaking before the Harvard branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, E.L. Moreland, Consulting Engineer, will give an illustrated talk on "The Electrification of the Lackawanna Railroad" in Pierce Hall 110, Wednesday evening at 7.30 o'clock...
William Adams Delano and Chester Holmes Aldrich specialize in Georgian mansions and clubhouses, at present the most depressed branch of the depressed profession of architecture. The firm's draughtsmen must not only draw but make models for their exacting clients. That gave Partner Delano an idea. Just back from Paris where he had been supervising the erection of the new U. S. Government Building fronting the Place de la Concorde, he set his idle apprentices to work designing dolls' houses. Last week with the Christmas season approaching genuine Delano & Aldrich doll houses were on sale...