Word: branches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Middle Ages a student occupied himself with every known department of learning. The sum of the world's wisdom was then but a fraction of the material which the student of today must master before he can be said to have made a beginning in even one branch of twentieth century learning. With the coming of the Renaissance men's minds were stimulated and enlivened by a multitude of new emotions and discoveries. The student strove for omniscience no less than the artist or the man of letters. Leonardo da Vinci was, in his day, as great a scientist...
...duties the maintenance of the good will of the public as well as the selling of the service. "The field department," continued Mr. Bridgman, "surveys the types of service now being used, and prophesies what they will be 20 years hence so that when that time comes, the branch offices and viaducts for the cable transmission will not have been badly misplaced...
...Hollister, who played right end on the University football team in 1921, has been connected for several years with the advertising agency of Barton, Durstine and Osborne, Inc., first in their New York office and more recently as head of the concern's Boston branch. Among the books which Mr. Hollister has written are "Famous Colonial Houses", "The German Secret Service in America, 1914-1918", and "The Detention of the German and Anarchist Bomb Plotters...
...president, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. The question is: Who will be elected? Mrs. Margery Corbett Ashby is being put forward by English suffragists. But the post has been occupied by an American for 20 years, and another Anglo-Saxon is considered undesirable. Mme. Marguerite Schlumberger, president of the French branch of the alliance, is suggested, but her election might "drive the Germans out of the association." Besides Mrs. Ashby and Mme. Schlumberger, Miss Crystal MacMillan of Scotland is the only other woman mentioned as a presidential possibility...
...William Z. Foster, the moving spirit of a branch of the Communist party, established in America, is facing trial for advocating the violent overthrow of the government. The chief witness for the state is an under cover" member of the Department of Justice. This man, nown as K-97, has produced evidence of secret codes, spy systems, educational and propaganda systems, and all the concomitants of a secret and well-organized party. Finally he has testified to a consultation between Foster and the Russian leaders from which Foster returned with a definite program for upsetting the government...