Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lewis was also a pioneer in the field of symbolic logic, where he laid the foundations for "modal logic," a branch of logic which has become increasingly important in recent years...
...imagines home as heaven and his fiancée (Anna Canzi) as an angel. When she sends him a letter, he greets it like an annunciation. Eagerly he replies, and soon the fiancés are writing regularly, soon a new green leaf of feeling grows from the dead branch of their love...
...Costly Decision. In 1927 the Bank of America absorbed old Charlie's Chinatown bank. Dolly, who had worked for her father since her teens, two years later became branch manager-and discovered her father's embezzlements. "We talked all night," recalls Dolly. "The question for me was whether I would betray my father. But I couldn't go down and betray him. And once I made that decision, I just stuck for more than 30 years...
...solving its unemployment problem. To qualify for veterans' benefits, Nairobi's neediest only have to trot out of town, drape themselves in a monkey skin and return chanting a Mau Mau jingle. It was all a little embarrassing for Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta. Branch offices of his ruling KANU party, having promised to feed all newly returned Mau Maus until they get settled, were going broke all through the former White Highlands, where the self-styled heroes aim to get 16-acre farms on the Mau Mau bill of rights. According to rank, hundreds of other comrades were...
...have fewer than 25,000 students and are falling back compared with needs. In 1962 the secondary schools could take only an eighth of all primary graduates; by 1966 they will be able to take only a twentieth. And before secondary graduates can enter college in Nairobi's branch of the new University of East Africa, they must take two extra years of "sixth form" in schools so limited that the entire country has only 1,000 sixth-formers...