Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City. Because his druggist-father was poor, Clifton Fadiman paid his way through high school by working in an insurance office and selling rare books. At Columbia University he tutored campus numskulls, was a waiter, sold magazine subscriptions. On the side he was a night clerk in a branch post office. Summers he lectured on French Symbolist poets and once translated Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's Ecce Homo. He aver aged $1,000 a year and earned, in addition, a Phi Beta Kappa...
...Stalino, the heart of the Donets Basin area. When the Germans occupied it 23 months ago, they hopefully set up in it a branch of the Nazi industrial octopus, the Hermann Göring Combine...
Before the Legion could cry "unfair," Major Spence was out. The Army called his transfer "routine." Brigadier General Frederick Osborn, whose Special Services Branch is responsible for Yank, hinted at an overseas assignment for ex-Editor Spence: "We can't run a good Army newspaper with men who sit in an office...
...upon row of polished skeletons glare down at the visitor to the Peabody Museum, south branch of the University Museum, where the Anthropology Department keeps the prehistoric fruits of a century and a half of study in the past...
...They work hard. But they play hard, too. The biggest, and one of the oldest, the Navy Supply Corps School is also the most conglomerate. Under its broad wing it harbors its Senior and Junior classes, a group of ex-Midshipmen, recently commissioned, some regular Midshipman, an embryo Wellesley branch, and 104 WAVES...