Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Take our own government in Washington today. You will find in practically every branch an able conscientious woman who really runs the particular office. She rarely has the title. . . . Perhaps some of you have wondered how politicians, lifted suddenly from obscurity, can carry on the intricate affairs of a highly technical government job. There is no mystery. These transplanted gentlemen have not, by magic, become genii of finance or statesmanship, but they have found in their new offices some unassuming woman who knows what it's all about and carries on. I could name a dozen such cases...
When the plant is finished three 750-h.p. motors will drive 400,000 cu. ft. of dried air, chilled to 35°, down the shaft every minute. It is expected that temperature will be reduced 8 to 12° in the main shaft, 5 to 7° in the branch workings, and the dry air will soak up 1,500 gal. of water every hour. Initial cost...
...Indianapolis, Ind., graduate of Shortridge High School. He is the son of Samuel M. Messing, salesman. Messing ranked first in his class, was an editor of the school paper, leader of the debating team, and winner of a city-wide French contest. His ambition is to enter some branch of medicine...
...Experience has shown that mass flights may give results unthought of today, and for this reason aviation must not be considered an extra branch of the Army or Navy. Aviation has its own aims. I am sure that aviation, under Premier Mussolini, will proceed along these lines...
Tall, lean, hook-nosed Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 23, nephew and heir to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, head of the British branch of the great banking family, walked with a party of friends into a gay British roadhouse known as The Ace of Spades, then walked out again without his lunch. Hearing rumors, London newshawks scurried to his home, heard him shyly explain : "As soon as I entered, the manager came up and asked me whether I was a Jew. My appearance is hardly 'Aryan.' I confirmed the fact that I was a Jew and he replied he was sorry...