Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apparent contradiction which Dean Rusk resolved for the Rhodes scholarship committee - "The eagle on the Great Seal has two claws, one with an olive branch and the other with arrows" - brings to mind an identical contradiction in the life of that universal genius Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was a peace-loving man and of great heart and charity. He could not bear to see trapped animals, and he bought caged birds only to set them free. Yet he devised horrible means of wiping out the enemy. He reconciled the contradiction in this pregnant aphorism: "When besieged by ambitious tyrants...
...traditionally held by the majority leader, with an added $40,000-a-year payroll for office help. He was surprised and right grieved to learn that 17 Senators voted against this proposal in the Democratic caucus, because they thought it was an executive invasion of the legislative branch...
Created by Congress in high hopes and great expectations, the independent regulatory agencies, the "fourth branch of Government," have long counted among Washington's most notorious messes-entangled in red tape, beset by lobbyists, tainted with scandal, and years behind on their work. Within days of his election John F. Kennedy appointed crusty New York Lawyer (and sometime dean of Harvard Law School) James McCauley Landis to look into the mess. Landis brought to the task plenty of firsthand experience in the regulatory-agency mazes. Back in New Deal days, he was a Federal Trade commissioner, then a Securities...
Dark Roots. What the baroness does in this book is scarcely tangible enough to describe. She dips a branch of memory into the pool of the past until it is crystallized with insights, landscapes, literature, and animals that seem as if painted by Henri Rousseau. Who else, one wonders, would have attained a great reputation as a healer merely by holding a Barua a Soldani, a letter from a king (Denmark's Christian X), to the chest of a young native writhing in agony from a badly fractured leg? As the letter became a relic, stiff with blood...
...when he got a crush on his pretty high school science teacher. Neither Beadle nor science ever quite got over it. The farm boy went to college and became a geneticist. With skill, patience and insatiable curiosity he helped to transform his narrow, abstruse specialty into a vital branch of science. Moving on from the classic fruit-fly experiments which had extended the study of heredity, Beadle began to investigate the intricate internal chemistry of bread mold. His observations led to a major scientific breakthrough: the first intimations of the manner in which genes control enzymes and enzymes control...