Word: branches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pueblo, Col., one Dale Sechrist, high school pupil, bought a pair of baggy Oxford trousers, donned them, went to school. ... In half an hour Dale Sechrist wore no trousers at all, was unconscious. From an upper branch of a nearby tree, flouted by the wind, derided from below, Dale's baggy bags flew high. Ku Kluxing klassmates had not liked them...
...student who has ever received any pecuniary reward or its equivalent by reason of his connection with athletics--whether for playing, coaching or acting as teacher in any branch of sport or engaging therein in any capacity--shall represent his University in any athletic team or crew, except that the Committee of Three Chairmen may permit such participation in intercollegiate athletes by men ho might technically be debarred under the letters of the rule, but who, in the judgment of the University Committee on Eligibility, have not commercialized their athletic ability nor offended against the spirit of the foregoing provision...
...Chairman of the General Concessions Committee, and later head of the Scientific and Technical Branch of the Supreme Economic Council...
...country has a larger army and a more powerful navy, costing annually almost twice as much as it ever before had in time of peace. I am a thorough believer in a policy of adequate military preparation. We are constantly working to perfect our defenses in every branch, land forces, air forces, surface and submarine forces. That work will continue...
...official version of the matter, which is that he has waited to resign his post until recent French successes have made the fruits of his early labors again secure. His enemies frankly hint that Abd-el-Krim had nearly blasted the rich protectorate of Lyautey, root and branch. Petain, they insist, must have full credit for saving...