Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...projected, and to a noteworthy extent realized, every doctor in Soviet Russia is a state official "and the practice of medicine is concentrated in dispensaries, polyclinics and hospitals in which the individual doctor is never an isolated unit, but is in systematic touch with every branch of medicine...
Died William Winston ("Bill") Roper, 53, Princeton's famed retired football coach, Philadelphia city councilman since 1920, branch manager of Prudential Insurance Co.; of a blood infection; in Philadelphia. Dynamic and eloquent, he adhered to no school or style of play, preached spirit and opportunism, taught his men not to fall on fumbled balls but to pick them up and run, decried football publicity when his teams had bad years, wrote football articles galore in good years...
...there have been infelicitous crossings of the fence. Cartography, taught as a branch of mathematics and a field of conformal speculation, fits beneath the aegis of the liberal arts; mapmaking in conjunction with aerial photography can only be uncomfortable there. The line has been clearly drawn by Newman and his posterity; there remains the question of whether to cross it or not. No college can draw out its days in eternal compromise; Harvard is liberal in theory, and tends to become illiberal in fact. Its critics, within and without Cambridge, have a right to ask that this difference be resolved...
When the National Student League branch at Yale chose to involve itself in a foundry strike, many things might have been expected. There might have been a few heads broken, or a ponderous manifesto on the academic spirit by the owner of the foundry. But only a few cynical sculs could have foreseen that Dean Mendell would make the statement which he did, all unafraid and all complacent, to the effect that Yale wanted nothing so much as to foster a spirit of cooperation between students and neighbours, albeit the neighbours were strike-breakers of the most brutal and witless...
That disease, despite the magic incantations of Senator Wagner and the Industrial Labour Board, is approaching crisis. Strikes and lockouts are symptoms of it which only the "ignorant and uninformed" can watch untroubled. The Yale branch of the National Student League may have been rash, although I do not think so; they may have risked their academic futures too recklessly, although we must respect them for doing...