Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your criticism of poets like Jeffers and Taggard-and I imagine you would include Lola Ridge, Tagore, Anna Hempstead Branch and others called mystical and "metaphysical" -unerringly indicates your own limitation as critic. You simply missed the boat so far as they are concerned, and in my humble opinion you always will miss it, so long as your ideas of poetry are based on semantics...
...make the U. S. still wiser, tougher, he was for overhauling: Social Security, public health, labor laws, set-up of the executive branch (reorganization), and the railroads...
...Olive Branch. All along the route Arabs, Berbers, Negroes from the South Sahara turned out with such enthusiasm to show French allegiance that tears rolled down the Premier's cheeks. At Sousse, with the Foreign Legion, cavalry and rifle regiments lined up in the square, M. Daladier caught the frenzy of the crowd, stepped out of the official procession and went through the square shaking hands with men, patting the heads of children. At Sfax the Caid (Mayor), whose grandfather fought against the invading French 57 years ago, presented M. Daladier with a silver olive branch symbolic of "union...
...decided that running the entire system was too much for two men to handle. And so a new plan was devised by which an executive branch consisting of one man from each House and a chairman will be in charge of the debating. The chairman of the board will be the regular treasurer of the Varsity Debating Council, which controls all upper class debating...
...brine deposits have brought stockholders dividends as regularly as Epsom salt brings relief. Last year (ending May 31, 1938) the company netted $3,895,269, approximate average for 1934-38. Never before in a merger, Dow has a good reason for this one: it wants a West Coast branch,* and Great Western offers that as well as exclusive rights to cheap processes of making chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, hexachloroethane...