Word: branches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usual cost of a chemical analysis is six dollars. We have organized a special branch of laboratory to specialize in analysis of all types of beverages with the result that we can do that work at a tremendous saving...
...task. Even now the first years of work under the system have little bearing on the divisional exams. In the second place, have the tutorial chairmen of all departments and representatives of the science departments compile a general bibliography of the best books, elementary and advanced, dealing with each branch of human knowledge; and by a few descriptive words aid the student in selecting those volumes which appeal to his present interest. Today the average student concentrating in government, for example, may have but the vaguest idea as to what writings are best in the fields of music, or astronomy...
When, at that time, it became evident that the U. S. must enter the war, the National Consulting Board selected a corps of 240 experts from every branch of industry to make a survey of the country's resources. Theodore N". Vail, dynamic Dutchman, then President of the A. T. & T., recommended W. S. Gifford to head this corps. No one outside the electrical industry had ever heard of Gifford, yet on Vail's word he was appointed. When the corps had done its work, he was chosen Director of the Advisory Committee of the Council of National...
...honorary reception committee to "Mr. Dickens" are representatives of the well-known Boston families whom the real Dickens met on his first visit to Boston. The whole affair is being arranged as part of the celebration of Dickens' birthday by the Boston branch of the Dickens Fellowship...
...amateur theatricals in which Dickens often played. These bill posters will be hung on the walls of the room and the books will be in the cases. Beside the Library collection of Dickens' works, additional books and bills have been loaned for the coming exhibit by the Boston branch of the Dickens Fellowship...