Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same size as present dollar bills, it will be distinguished by an unfamiliar but appropriate design. On the back it will bear the well-known obverse likeness of the Great Seal of the U. S. (adopted in 1782), the eagle with E Pluribus Unum in its beak, a branch of olive in one talon, a clawful of arrows in the other. And alongside will appear the little-known reverse of the Great Seal (see cut): an unfinished pyramid dated 1776; above it, the allegorical eye of God and the words Annuit Coeptis (He favored our undertakings); below it, Novus Ordo...
...United States Judge. It would have been far better, Mr. Secretary, if you would retract your own libel of Judge Wilson and put your own house in order before intruding your unwelcome person into purely legislative matters. . . . You have the effrontery to tell me in the legislative branch how to conduct a fair hearing when you don't even know the definition of the word 'fairness' by your own action...
...agencies, sees the President frequently, confers with his colleagues twice each day. No Federal official rides the airlines more than SEChairman Kennedy. In the last year he has flown more than 65,000 miles. Lately in one week he flew to San Francisco for the opening of a regional branch office, on to Los Angeles (with a stop-over at San Simeon to chat with William Randolph Hearst) and back to Washington via Pittsburgh. At the week's end he hopped to Manhattan. About once a fortnight he manages to week-end with his wife and as many...
Benito Mussolini's horse bumped him into a low-hanging branch which knocked him off, blacked his eye. Imperturbed. Il Duce attended a large reception at the British Embassy that night...
...Fifth Avenue Bank followed the uptown trend of the residential district by establishing its first and only branch at Madison Avenue & 73rd Street...