Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sets up a system which will let bright students graduate in three years. The brightest (to be called the Scholars of the House) may be admitted to a new experi ment in which, after two years of a "con trolled curriculum" (i.e., no electives), they will be allowed to branch out in much the manner of graduate students, study whatever they want, earn degrees on the basis of a thesis and a long oral examination...
Doctor of Laws: William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard; Director of Research and Analysis Branch, Office of Strategic Services: "An historian whose talents now assist the Army and the Navy; through him we salute the many Harvard scholars who have contributed to the overthrow of the Nazi state...
...invited "Cactus Jack" to drop in any time. Washington promptly hummed that Jack Garner might get a Cabinet job. But no such offer was made. Old Cactus Jack, 76, is so busy watering his pecan trees, feeding chickens, "striking a blow for liberty" (with bourbon and a little "branch water" from the tap), and resting, that not even an offer of the Secretary of Stateship could lure him back to Washington...
Well aware of modern war's complexity, West Point does not attempt to turn out a finished soldier. Specialization is left to Army branch schools, civilian graduate schools, and the service graduate schools, including the General Staff School at Leavenworth and the Army War College in Washington. West Point is the liberal arts college of U.S. soldiering...
...health is not so bad as might have been expected. But the worst may be yet to come. Such was the gist of an UNRRA report last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In Paris, Major General Warren Draper, chief of the public health branch of the Allied Military Government, said the same...