Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over Bonus City hung the constant threat of pestilence. Flies swarmed. Garbage lay half buried. The men bathed in the Eastern Branch (Potomac), virtually an open sewer. Twenty-three cases of communicable disease were spotted but were lost in the crowd. The air reeked with filthy smells. Eight men were reported to have died. Food was poor. Scabies broke out. Public health officers declared conditions were "frightful." warned of a "terrible epidemic" which might suddenly fan out from the camp across the city and country. A 24-hour quarantine was set up for new arrivals and a special camp with...
...some kind of agreement between secondary schools and colleges. The aim was to find some method by which secondary education "can become modernized in the direction of greater breadth and coordination of study." Close contact with colleges enables secondary schools to meet all the necessary admission requirements, and then branch off into a wider and more mature form of scholastic work...
...Tycoon Robert Dollar, head of his own Canadian-American Shipping Co., onetime president of Canadian Chamber of Commerce; of heart disease, like his father (TIME. May 23); in Vancouver. For many years he represented the Dollar interests in Canada, resigned from his father's company in 1922 to branch out for himself. Able brother Robert Stanley has long headed Dollar Lines, was last week elected president of reorganized U. S. Lines...
...Barnard College, now that their recent remarks on education have been characterized as "ignorant" and "erroneous." The Dean of the Graduate School of Education, writing ex cathedra, gives us to understand that laymen are hardly qualified to deal with those technical matters. In fact, ever since education became a branch of technology, we have been left in the dark about such problems, perforce content to take the word of experts who have attained facility in experimental technique or glibness in professional jargon. Our own School--to quote its catalogue--endeavors to place "the technical training of teachers and school officers...
...literary herbarium is the philosophical romance: perhaps its most famed flowering is the late Joseph Henry Shorthouse's John Inglesant. Author Morgan's novel, acclaimed with broad "Ahs!" in England, the June choice of the U. S. Book-of-the-Month Club, twigs from the same literary branch. In a rhythmic, hypnotic style it shows philosophic conceptions rising in the lives of its main characters, those characters' lives falling back on philosophical conceptions...