Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Biochemical Sciences are a close second to Chemistry in the number of concentrators in a scientific field, for there were 139 men in them last year. Its appeal is that it provides a general training in the more important sciences without being limited to any one branch. Secondly it is worth consideration by students planning to go to Medical School because it is a compromise between the extremely narrow background which is provided by concentration in Chemistry, Biology, or Physics, which require all one's time at the expense of social and cultural courses, and the non-scientific background offered...
Concentrators are edvised to branch out and take such courses as Philosophy 15 and Fine Arts 1d. An elementary course in Philosophy is useful no matter what the field...
That the President is overworked, and that the Executive branch is sadly in need of reorganization, everyone is agreed, Pettee said, and until the administrative machinery is overhauled, "with all due regard for the responsibility of the executive to Congress, there can be no real responsibility in such confusion...
...civilization's great crisis. In every way an apostate world challenges principles which past generations have long thought secure. Law and order and good old army discipline have just been vanquished in Oregon's primaries, and the Princeton campus gave Earl Browder a warm greeting. But yet a further branch has been made in the dikes which true liberals has been made in the dikes which turn liberals have builded against the raging torrents of the New Deal. The Herald Tribune wavers...
President Roosevelt promptly remarked that he was glad to hear of this olive branch and Bill Douglas, making his first comment since the Supreme Court upheld the registration provision of the Holding Company Act last month, declared in Electrical World: "We do not expect every utility system to present us immediately with a revised map showing revamped, integrated systems. Nor do we propose to draw such a map. ... the statute is not a 'death sentence.' On the contrary it holds the promise of a long life and a happy one. It substitutes order for chaos. ... We are ready...