Word: branches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...widows between the ages of 65 and 70, crowded into British branch post offices, last week, in piteous, hopeful, halting ranks, numbering some 450,000. Sympathetic post people registered the widows' names and proofs of age and widowhood in mossy ledgers. Then to each bona fide applicant they passed out "ten bob" (10 shillings...
...reading the reports of her arrival, women's clubs retracted their invitations. Some women spoke sharply of "Hoyden Royden"; others, baffled by her direct and vigorous speech, took refuge in expressions of fluffy indignation. On the day after her arrival, Agnes Maude Royden gave a lecture at a Manhattan branch of the Young Women's Christian Association. Said Preacher Royden, referring to the distinction between the moral codes for male and female: "We shall see worse things before better. ... In the end we shall evolve a stable and permanent relation between men and women for the creation of children...
...nevertheless, the opinion of the college youth held by Bill Stonaker, veteran engineer on the Junction branch of the Pennsylvania railroad which hauls all of the boys to Princeton who do not walk, has taken a sudden jump for the better in the past few years...
...years," said Mr. Stonaker, "since I've been on the Princeton to Princeton Junction branch, and college boys have changed a lot since I started. They ain't so kiddish as they used to be now they're grown up like and act like...
...provinces of Canada, in the greater and lesser Antilles, in nine regions of South America, in Manhattan, Paris and Barcelona-the Royal Bank of Canada operates 884 branch offices. General Manager C. E. Neill was able to state last week than the bank's assets are $894,663,903, the largest ever reported by a Canadian bank and one of the largest ever reported. Bank headquarters are in Montreal. The president of the board of directors is Sir Herbert Samuel Holt...