Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since two-thirds of the players in the leagues now come up from college baseball teams, that branch of the sport can't be ignored," he said, "I don't know of any player, though, who has come right from college baseball and begun to play big-league ball immediately. A lot depends on experience, in addition to latent ability. There is a fellow named Kane on the Pirates who will be a great player some day but just now he is throwing games away occasionally and then again winning some for the team...
...Heard Virginia's Glass charge that Chicago bankers had hired a Congressman, now deceased, to oppose branch-banking legislation...
Despite the fact that rowing at Harvard attracts more men than any other sport, the number of awards of major H's made to oarsmen each year is the least of any branch of athletics in the University. A change to render more liberal the rules governing such awards has the avowed approval of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. The vote of the Student-Council in this matter would provide the awaited expression of undergradute opinion, and would bring about the desired change...
...banks have prospered; their solidity has never been questioned. Hence when last week San Francisco heard that the two banks will soon be merged there were no whispers of "taking over" or "just in time." It was accepted as a move towards economy and perhaps preparation for state-wide branch banking under the provisions of the Glass Banking Bill. Friends recalled that for a dozen years the Fleishhackers have contemplated in leisurely fashion the day when they would bank not as neighborly brothers but in one institution...
...ample opportunity to think for himself, this course in Mechanics given by Professor Osgood is one in which native ingenuity and mechanical insight are most useful; there are plenty of opportunities to develop latent reasoning powers in a subject which is altogether concrete. A student planning to enter any branch of engineering or physics will never regret the knowledge of elementary mechanics that may be gained in this course. Instruction is sometimes uninspiring, but the training and subject matter compensate for this defect