Word: branch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baseball," Birdie told his men, "is exactly what Branch Rickey said it was: 'A race between a man and a ball.' Baseball is a game of inches. A guy catches the ball on the tip of his glove, a batter tops a ball and beats a throw to first. Or a fellow gets up in the ninth and comes through with a liner between third and short-he's a hero. Two inches the other way and he's a bum because he hit into a double play. The only thing...
Watershed. In Hartford, Conn., weathermen of the Connecticut Valley branch of the American Meteorological Society, rained out in 1955, announced that they had reserved for their annual picnic an "area with indoor facilities...
...stand raised a constitutional question: Under the U.S. three-branch system of government, can the U.S. Senate impose domestic conditions on its consent to international agreements negotiated by the executive branch...
...case's "imperative public importance" demanded a speedy settlement. Their two-fold argument: 1) the Uniform Code of Military Justice permits the Pentagon to surrender jurisdiction to civil authority where it sees fit; 2) in international relations, i.e., the status-of-forces agreement with Japan, the U.S. executive branch has power to waive jurisdiction over overseas G.I.s. At week's end the U.S. Supreme Court decided to delay adjournment (originally slated for this week), extend its term to hear the Girard case early next month...
There is little doubt that new colleges will have to be founded; clearly not all American institutions of higher education can suddenly decree a 130 per cent expansion program in order to meet the demands of increased population. But there seems little chance of Harvard's entering such a branch college operation at this time...