Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their last year of undergraduate work or who have just started upon graduate work in a recognized College or University in the United States. They will be tepable for one year at Cambridge or Oxford, and will have the value of 500 pounds each. Women may apply for any branch of these Universities which regularly admits women...
Each candidate must submit evidence of distinction in some recognized branch of learning, as well as a definite plan of study for his year at Cambridge or Oxford...
...short space of time. Washington has been bordering on chaos. Much of this legislation may be highly desirable in principle. It is in grave danger of falling into disrepute, however, merely because of the haste with which it was enacted and the impossible burden assumed by the executive branch of the government. By its own rash action, the New Deal has been imperilling true social reform...
...particularly fit him to be the chief executive in the government of the United States. He is, in the first place, a skillful politician. I do not mean merely that he is skilled in the art of political organization, but that he knows how to deal with the legislative branch of the government and at the same time secure the confidence of the general public. In a successful president both of these arts are essential. Of course if, by virtue of them, a president succeeds in having his measures passed by Congress, and in making an effective popular appeal...
...reporting the Simpson divorce it would not even be mentioned in British newspapers. Simultaneously Scotland Yard operatives took the number of the motorcar of an Associated Press photographer who was taking pictures of furniture being moved into Mrs. Simpson's new house and warned him that the political branch of Scotland Yard is "clearing this street." The U. S. photographer refused to be intimidated and made a series of amusing pictures showing Mrs. Simpson's furniture being moved by the firm of Trollope in Belgrave Square. Among journalistic employes of British newspapers indignation at the suppression...