Word: branches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bystander is content to analyze it as merely "drunk". And the young collegiate, ever ready to increase his vocabulary, has a host of terms in stock, from the concise "tight" to the quaintness of "potted". But it has remained for the W. C. T. U. or its New England branch, to define the condition with due branch, to define the condition with due respect to the recent amendment. If or when one indulges in such activity one is "suffering from alcoholic poisoning." One does not drink "liquor", for there is not real liquor any longer, a statement that will...
Married. Elizabeth Frances du Pont, 21, daughter of Philip F. du Pont (retired executive of the E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co.); to Richard Dorsey Morgan, 22, office manager of the Bell Telephone Co.'s Philadelphia branch; at Bel Air, Md., after eloping...
...twenty years Harvard has shifted from being the only American college to treat the practical theatre as a branch of education, to being almost the only good college...
...means least among which stands the Interstate Commerce Commission. The great banking houses of J. P. Morgan & Co., and Kuhn, Loeb made their coup at the time the pioneers were laying down the rails, and ever since have been closely bound in the affairs of this great branch of commerce. Down through the close of the century and on into the present decade roars the industry, and the latest exploits we hear of in connection with it are the affairs of the Van Sweringen brothers and their Nickel Plate Railway, and the remarkable way in which Commodore Arthur Curtiss James...
However when a man concentrates in geology, he is almost inevitably led to ask himself whether he shall devote his life to this branch of science. The attractiveness of the outdoor study and the fascination of its many problems become more compelling as course after course is taken; at the same time the student gets to know better what a professional career means. This knowledge is of great value to him, and probably in most cases it cannot be obtained in college without concentration. At soon as the decision to become a professional geologist is reached, the man should plan...