Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cinemaddicts who recover from their initial shock at this innovation will be relieved to find that: 1) If, as Franklin Roosevelt says, it is inadequate for national defense, his favorite branch of the service is still amply capable of giving taxpayers their money's worth in a theatre. 2) Aside from its new sphere of operations, the Navy's chief interest remains what it always has been: romance, in this case between the daughter (Nancy Kelly) of a freighter's captain and a daring young engineer (Richard Greene*) on the submarine chaser S.C. 599, assigned to convoy...
...list of the Senior Sixteen with their college and home addresses follows: Jerome L. Abrams of Kirkland House and Long Branch, N. J.; Bernard Barber of Winthrop House and Cambridge; Albert K. Cohen of Roxbury; Ray S. Cline of Dunster House and Terre Haute, Indiana...
...next day he scribbled a note of resignation from college, departed for a farm near Amherst, 90 miles away in the New Hampshire hills. Dartmouth's Dean Lloyd Kellock Neidlinger, who knew where Gates had gone, went after him. On the farm was a branch of a famed old New England cult-the Holy Ghost and Us Society (or Legion...
...hundred years ago, Charlemagne's dream was realized by Ludwig I of Bavaria, who joined the Rhine's branch, the Main, with the Danube. It was Germany's first canal of any consequence, a 107-mile stretch between Bamberg and Kelheim...
...competent to give an introductory course, and failing him, there are others such as Dr. Lange of the Blue Hill Observatory. With a little encouragement the Department can perhaps throw away its good-old-days-we're-liked-now policy, pull itself together, and offer courses in a valuable branch of science...