Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...growers of an appreciable part of their best market. The President's explanation of this set-back to his trade-expansion program was that he proposes to lower tariffs only on goods which will not harm U. S. industries, whereas imports of Japanese cloth were definitely harming one branch of the U. S. textile industry. Total U. S. imports of cotton cloth in 1935, of which Japan supplied about half, amounted to less than 1%, of domestic production. Textile millers clamoring for protection, however, complained that in their special lines-bleached, printed, colored and dyed goods-Japanese manufacturers furnished...
...Jackson's fame as a bronchoscopist had attracted so many doctors to his classes at Philadelphia's Jefferson and University of Pennsylvania medical schools that he had enough specialists in that new branch of surgery to form the American Bronchoscopic Society. This week that society, augmented to a membership of about 75 by graduates of Philadelphia's Temple University where Dr. Jackson now teaches, meets in Detroit for exchange of experiences of extracting tacks, pins, false teeth, bones, knickknacks from lung and gullet...
...estimated that U. S. amateurs have built about 10,000 telescopes, have organized some 50 clubs. The Pittsburgh club, formed as a branch of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, has a typical membership: engineers, doctors, dentists, lawyers, a bishop, two nuns...
...order to understand the position that a Graduate School of Engineering must occupy in the American educational orchard it is necessary to recognize the American university as a transplant from English soil (the college) upon which have been grafted the branches of certain graduate disciplines and professional schools native to Continental Europe. The tree of university education thus produced appears to have been well adapted to the American climate and soil and has flowered and borne fruit in abundance and variety. While attempts have been made in the past to include among these branches a professional school of Engineering, such...
...What has been persecution aplenty for me has now, following my Supreme Court victory, given place to revenge. But the face of an agency of the executive branch of our Government cannot be saved from the effect of severe excoriation by our judiciary through continual hounding of an individual to his eventual ruination...