Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tigers. The struggle of these two humans against the jungle is a parallel of the struggle of an orangutan and its child, and this parallel contributes the story. The orangutan is remarkable because it is so similar to man, and in this picture the relationship is derogatory to neither branch of the species: the hunter and the ape are allies against death-by-violence as symbolized by the tiger. Once the orangutans loot the hunter's hut but for the most part they are mannerly, sagacious, and amusing. With them in the cast are all sorts of other monkeys...
...days of Germany's post-War depression. Potter Rosenthal, who makes most of his money from utilitarian crockery, is proudest of the delicate porcelain statuettes which his factories mould from designs by Germany's best known sculptors. Months ago Rosenthal managers pointed out a curious fact: the company has branch offices in Berlin, London, Paris, Munich, Vienna, Chicago, New York. U. S. Citizens hasten to buy Rosenthal figures in all the European branches, will not buy them in their own country. Potter Rosenthal admires the U. S. The Wanderjahr to which every well-to-do German youth feels entitled, Potter...
...Socialist Club, will appear before the U. S. Senate this morning to argue for a bill prohibiting compulsory military training in American schools and colleges, it was announced last night by officers of the Club. The League for industrial Democracy, of which the Harvard Socialist Club is an affiliated branch, is sponsoring the arguments for the bill, which was introduced at the request of the League...
...present figures, however, and from the present tutorial staffs it may be seen that there is a danger of enlisting too many men from a particular field of concentration in a single House. It is still more possible that too many men will be chosen from a more general branch-of learning; the physical sciences, the social sciences, the languages, literatures, and arts...
Meeting for the purpose of organizing the Harvard University Student Branch of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers a group of 35 engineering students elected officers and heard a talk on the purposes of the branch in a short meeting held in room 307 Pierce Hall yesterday morning...