Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often most needed is stress on a definite phase of elementary training, such as reading, grammar or composition. Until these fundamentals are instilled in a student, the great value of a survey course is lost. With this in mind, it has rearranged the "groundwork" courses so that every branch of this training will be given in the future, thus permitting men to develop those fields in which they feel weak and to bring their elementary training up to a common level...
Last fortnight the New York Herald Tribune received from Paris copy for an extraordinary advertisement. Investigation disclosed that it had lately appeared in the Paris Herald, that the advertiser had been directed to the Herald Tribune by its Paris branch. Since the copy was accompanied by a check in full payment, the Herald Tribune proceeded to set it up. But the text was so astonishing that the Paris Herald's advertising representative in New York felt impelled to proofread it himself...
...assistants are: William H. Nichells, of Lexingten, Kentacky economics: Donald M. Kubel, of Bar Keley, California, economics; Carl E. Thomas, of Belmont, economics; Richard R. Goodwin, of Brockline, biology Branford P. Millar, of Warsaw, New York, English; Kenneth P. Miller, of Columbus, Ohio, English; Meyer R. Abrams of Long Branch, New Jerees. English; Basis W. Kchler, of Thun, communication engineering; Demorested of Newport. Rhode Island Biology and Olot H. Pearson, of Destenter biology...
...unconstitutional is subject to two guiding principles of decision which ought never to be absent from judicial consciousness. One is that courts are concerned only with the power to enact statutes, not with their wisdom. The other is that while unconstitutional exercise of power by the executive and legislative branches of the Government is subject to judicial restraint, the only check upon our own exercise of power is our own sense of self-restraint. For the removal of unwise laws from the statute books appeal lies not to the courts but to the ballot and to the processes of democratic...
...boom sales of Japanese goods last autumn went a trade mission sent by the Osaka branch of the Japan-American Trade Council. Last month the mission returned to Japan, gave an account of its trip which Trans-Pacific, Tokyo English-language newspaper, reported as follows: "Attacks by the Hearst papers were largely responsible for the great success of the trade mission. . . . The mission returned to Yokohama last week on the President Lincoln with the statement that Hearst papers continually criticized Japanese goods as cheap and shoddy. But the people of the United States apparently wanted cheap goods and the [Hearst...