Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When President Hoover went to Des Moines early this month, he received aboard his special train Mrs. Mollie Brown Carran of West Branch who was widely publicized as his first school teacher (TIME, Oct. 17). Mrs. Carran promptly rejected the "first" claim, explained that she was only the first teacher her pupil, aged 10, could remember before he went West. She named Mrs. Elizabeth Chandler Sunier of Iowa City as the person who started Herbert Hoover's education. Interviewed last week, Mrs. Sunier declared: "Did I think Bertie would be President? Of course I didn...
...contentedly on a cigar. Ernest Boyd lolled crosslegged, grinning through his messianic beard. Hulking Theodore Dreiser looked less glum than usual. All had just learned that the first monthly issue of The American Spectator ("A Literary Newspaper") published by Mr. Smith and edited by the three writers (plus James Branch Cabell and Eugene O'Neill) had sold out its entire edition of 12,000 copies in a day, that newsdealers were shouting for 10,000 more. Within a few days still another 10,000 had to be printed...
...vitriolic attack on the Church and censorship in Ireland by Liam O'Flaherty; an objection to the prevalence of sexless leading women on the stage by Critic Nathan; an argument by Dreiser for control of adult population; articles by Eugene O'Neill, Clarence Darrow, James Branch Cabell, Louis Untermeyer, Joseph Wood Krutch...
...Dialectics, in philosophy, is the syntax of reason, the branch of logic which teaches the rules of reasoning. The connection with Mrs. Hutchins' drawings is obscure...
...Radio-Controlled Yacht" will be the subject of a lecture and demonstration of experiments to be given by C. L. Dawes, associate professor of Engineering, before the Harvard student branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers on Thursday at 7.45 o'clock, in Pierce Hall...