Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stimson made some effort to divide the blame. "To the Air Forces, the Navy was a backward service with no proper understanding of air power; to the Navy, the Air Forces was a loud-mouthed and ignorant branch which had not even mastered its own element...
...Into a branch of the Tekoku Bank, Japan's largest, last week walked a middle-aged man of distinction wearing the arm band of a Tokyo municipal official. He said he was a city health inspector. Would the manager please summon all his employees for a dose of special anti-dysentery medicine...
...addition to President Conant, a host of other University members will speak. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, is scheduled to oppose the Barnes Bill for the State branch of Americans for Democratic Action. Schlesinger is chairman of ADA's Cambridge Chapter...
...Each branch of sport is treated separately, arranged in the order in which the competitions with Yale began--rowing, baseball, football, track and field athletics, hockey and, finally, brief statements about lawn tennis and golf, for the "H" is given to Harvard men who win the intercollegiate tennis championship in singles or doubles and to men who win the intercollegiate golf championship...
Many delegates had arrived believing that they were empowered only to revise the Articles of Confederation. In four days, between May 28 and May 31, crucial and bold decisions were made. It was agreed that a national government should be established; that the members of the first branch (the House) should be elected by the people, and that each house should have the power to originate acts. Even more fundamental, Congress should have the power to negative all laws of the states that contravened the articles of union. Then, having done all this, the delegates fell to arguing details...