Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Uncle Branch Rickey, the pious deacon of Montague Street, Brooklyn, concluded the first of his autumn deals Saturday with Lou Perini. This bargain sent minor league outfielders Sam Jethroe and Bob Addis to the Braves in return for six unannounced players in the Boston chain and a bale of cash (total also unannounced). We may he sure that Rickey did not got the worst of the deal, but for a change the other party, in this case Perini, did not get hopelessly chisled. We may also be sure that the total of the each in question surpassed...
...then did Uncle Branch sell Jethroe, an acknowledged swiftie, a solid line drive hitter, and the possessor of an excellent throwing arm? For one thing, there was the price. A cryptic paragraph in the New York Times stated that the Addis-Jethroe deal provided enough revenue for Ricky to be able to write off the losses of last fall's unfortunate venture into the All-America football conference. The loss on the football Dodgers in 1948 has been conservatively estimated at $300,000. And Rickey got six minor leaguers to boot (whose names will be given on October...
Father Feeney got into trouble with his immediate superior, the Provincial or head of the Boston branch of the Society of Jesus in September of 1948. He was ordered by the Provincial in August to take up duties as a professor at Holy Cross College by September. He never went. This was reported in the September 8 issue of "The Pilot," the official archdiocesian magazine and the report was signed by Father John J. McEleny, S. J., Provincial...
Problems for All. The conference proved that hardly a science or branch of technology lacks problems for the computers.-Physicists, chemists, aircraft de signers had plenty of them to offer. So did psychologists and physiologists. Even sociologists wanted to use the machines, though they did not quite know how to go about it. All the scientists agreed that the large-scale calculators would encourage them to tackle many problems from which they had been scared away by computation difficulties...
Problems for All. The conference proved that hardly a science or branch of technology lacks problems for the computers.* Physicists, chemists, aircraft de signers had plenty of them to offer. So did psychologists and physiologists. Even sociologists wanted to use the machines, though they did not quite know how to go about it. All the scientists agreed that the large-scale calculators would encourage them to tackle many problems from which they had been scared away by computation difficulties...