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Word: branch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall, kindly, broad-shouldered, with sullen grey eyes and a full beard and mustache. He had 13 children. Devil Anse built his cabin on the edge of West Virginia, at a point where Peter Creek flows into Tug Fork. Across the Tug in Kentucky, up Blackberry Creek to Hatfield Branch, then up the steep mountain slopes to the ridge at Turkeyfoot-seven or eight miles-was Randolph McCoy's cabin. The land between was battleground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Folk Feud | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Bungling Agent. While poor Harriet struggled to decide whether to turn her beloved over to Scotland Yard, "auntie" and the "vet" (two husky Russians who ran the London branch of the "Apparatus") tried to decide what to do about Harriet. Agent Lightfoot was an invaluable spy, but he had up & married a little moron without party consent, and (they decided) she would have to be "eliminated." Obviously, Agent Lightfoot was the man best qualified to do the eliminating. Lightfoot protested, but he took Harriet duck-hunting and tried to blow her head off. When he failed, the Apparatus decided that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Serpent in Uniform | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Calling UMT a direct read toward war." Judge Lawrence G. Brooks '02 chairman of the Boston Branch of the Foreign Policy Association, told the Harvard Liberal Union last night that new methods of warfare have made large standing armies obsolete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HLU Hears UMT Hit as War Step | 3/25/1948 | See Source »

With 600 children already reaping the benefits of its Cambridge headquarters, the Harvard Pediatric clinic has opened the doors of a Harvardevens branch. The clinic already lists between 200 and 300 patients and is free to all residents of the village...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pediatric Clinic Opens New Branch | 3/25/1948 | See Source »

With a canvassing and clerical force of almost 500 mobilized here and at Radcliffe, Samuel M. Robbins '45, newly-designated chairman of the University branch of the World Student Service Fund for the rehabilitation of foreign scholarship, promised last night that "we'll make 'em forget what apathy feels like," in pressing for a $20,000 quota...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WSSF Mobilizes Forces To Aid Foreign Schools | 3/25/1948 | See Source »

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