Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being used, there was no argument as to their effectiveness. Judges and juries have found that the meters are competent witnesses and entirely legal. But there was a great deal of argument over the ethics of using the unseen screen. ¶In Madison, Wis., the director of the state branch of the American Automobile Association publicly denounced the meters as an affront to law-abiding drivers. ¶In Rochester, motorists who put tin foil or steel marbles in their hubcaps in an unsuccessful effort to foul the detectors were charged with attempting to obstruct justice as well as with speeding...
...recasting physics in new ways, the emblem of an insatiable intellect, has led him into the depths of his science at almost breakneck speed. When he was just starting high school in his native New York, he read unceasingly in physics. "I began to read systematically through the branch libraries uptown, gradually working my way downtown to the Public Library on 42nd Street." By the time Schwinger had graduated from high school, he had read thoroughly in atomic physics and quantum mechanics. His training in mathematics had been to read all that the Encyclopedia Britannica offered on that subject, which...
...third branch of organized House-College athletics, an eight-man Winthrop squad will invade New Haven bent upon bringing the long-absent touch football crown back to Cambridge. The Puritans will play at two o'clock, but even the director of intramural athletics doesn't know against whom...
...former Vice President John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner, 84, who was once denounced by Labor Boss John L. Lewis as "a whisky-drinking, poker-playing, evil old man," had his picture taken as he played a wicked game of solitaire without a poker chip or drop of bourbon-and-branch water in sight...
...Banking. The New York Savings Bank began remote control banking in its Rockefeller Center Branch, where tellers use closed-circuit television to check signatures and account balances kept at the main office. Because records are centralized, the branch needs only half the usual working space, hopes to be able to cut costs...