Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the course usually ends in a reserve commission in the field artillery, it is possible to get a commission in other branches of the Army by attending the summer camp of the desired branch. An eight-week period at summer camp is required before the commission is granted. All expenses are paid by the government and each man will receive the pay of the sixth grade of the army while at camp. Before the war, Harvard and Yale students went to a joint encampment at Fort Ethan Allen in Vermont, but McClure doubts if this will be continued...
...Herwick, of the Business School faculty, attended last night's meeting as a representative of the Harvard branch of the A. F. L. Teachers Union. Mayor John D. Lynch of Cambridge is honorary chairman of the Council...
...Heller had moved unobtrusively in the shadowy half-world of the U.S. far left wing. Born in Minsk, Russia, 71 years ago, he turned up in the U.S. in 1891, started a jewel-importing business, married a New York girl. He made money fast. Soon he opened a Paris branch, moved to France...
...treaty provides that the Russians can build a dam on the Murghab River, to irrigate the barren steppes of the neighboring Turkmen Soviet Republic. It also consolidates Russia's hold on the strategically important Trans-Caspian Railroad, a branch of which ends at Kushka, near Afghan and Iranian oil. In return, Afghanistan got a couple of small islands...
...Evan Hardy of the University of Saskatchewan did not look like a professor; nor did he look like a revolutionist. Yet as much as any one man can, dealing with a single branch of the farm economy, Dr. Hardy has wrought a revolution in prairie agriculture. It began 15 years ago when he served as a judge in plowing matches. Then & there he decided that plowing matches were good fun, but a waste of farmers' time. What difference did it make how fast and straight a furrow could be plowed? The important thing was the productivity of the furrow...