Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect of so-called Presidential indecision, regarding strikers and homefront, etc. will be forgotten by the time of the fourth-term decision. The real detriment to the future of the present Administration, a fear for the preservation of an independent legislative branch, has been discredited. . . . The people can again afford to indulge in their favorite personality-Franklin D. Roosevelt, without fear of losing their democratic process...
...simplified presentation of a jawbreaking language was available last week at the Oxford University Press, Bombay branch. Tibetan Word Book is also one of the weightiest contributions to the Western study of Tibetan or Bod-skad (pronounced Bho-ka) since Hungary's Alexander Csoma de Kb'ros, originally hoping to discover the Hungarians' remote ancestry, did his arduous philological pioneering in a Tibetan monastery more than a century ago. Authors of the new work are two British civil servants who have worked in Tibet and India, Sir Basil John Gould and Hugh Edward Richardson...
...right. He was the Dodgers' best pitcher. But the Old Showboat's arrogance got Manager Leo ("Lippy") Durocher's goat. When it came to a showdown last week-after Bobo's suspension for insubordination had caused a brief "sympathy strike" among his teammates-Dodger Boss Branch Rickey upheld Durocher. Newsom, only three years ago reputed to be baseball's highest-paid pitcher, was waived out of the National League, traded to the St. Louis Browns...
Pinochle Speed-Up. Two years ago, Detroit's Murray Corp. (auto frames and parts) was having production trouble with its branch plant in Ecorse, a Detroit suburb. The fault lay in obsolete time studies (schedules setting average time to complete operations), which actually gave some workmen so much free time that they played pinochle in washrooms. Murray got its U.A.W.-C.I.O. local to agree to new time studies by a firm of industrial engineers. To quiet union suspicions of a profit-inspired speedup, Murray did something unique in time study history: five union men were selected to take...
After a brief respite in which they were handed concentrated packages of learning in a variety of courses, the often-tested G.I. soldiers in the psychology branch of the AST unit advanced through barrage of questions this week, keeping their heads well down--and their noses shoved into books during the intervals between tests...