Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Energy & Erosion. Sam Carver, a fourth-generation native of Jackson County, Tenn., returned from a Union prison after the Civil War, gathered together what money he had, borrowed some more, bought about 800 acres along Dry Fork Branch, near Liberty, and set out with grim energy to wring his living from the land. Says Joe Moore: "He paid next to nothing for it-about $3,000-and he got his money back the first year on timber. His aim was to make all the money he could off it." Such an aim is one that Joe, himself a proudly acquisitive...
...hand and the Shulchan Aruch [a codification of Jewish law] in the other. He could say to the prospective convert: 'Here is a new way of living. Take it!' And then the convert would really have taken something; he would not merely be moving from one 'branch' of universal religion to another. But ... if the prospective convert is confronted with a statement that leaves it an open question whether or not God is a person, whether or not there is such a fact as Revelation, whether or not prayer is answered, and with an idea...
...Force said it had too many administration officers--the branch the 35 would have gone into--and that the best it could do would be to give them certificates of completion. These certificates allow enlistment as Airmen for only two years instead of the normal four...
...Franklin Roosevelt's death thrust him into the President's office. He did not even know that the U.S. was building an atomic bomb, which was then almost ready to use. As Vice President, Truman was inclined to look upon himself as a member of the legislative branch, who could not expect to share the confidences of the President. Explains Truman: "The President, by necessity, builds his own staff, and the Vice President remains an outsider, no matter how friendly the two may be. There are many reasons for this, but an important one is the fact that...
...skeletons of the hairy mammoth, super bison, musk ox, Pleistocene horse and saber-toothed tiger. Meanwhile, the university has spread its influence far beyond its own borders. Last year 1,000 adults took its special nine-week mining course; 1,000 students are now enrolled at its branch community colleges in Anchorage and Ketchikan; 1,100 study at its military branches at Eielson, Ladd and Elmendorf air bases...