Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Received from Virginia's Glass a bill, a year in the making, to limit the use of Federal Reserve credit by speculators; to increase branch banking; to create a corporation to liquidate closed banks. ¶ Received from the Committee on Manufactures a favorable report on a bill by Wisconsin's La Follette to appropriate $375,000,000 for direct Unemployment Relief ("dole") by the States. ¶ Adopted a resolution by Wisconsin's Elaine instructing the Attorney General not to compromise the Government's monopoly suit against Radio Corp. in a consent decree...
James Walker Brown is necessary to the existence of the Bucharest Badminton Club because the club plays in and was organized by the Rumanian branch of the Y. M. C. A. Sole survivor of 47 Y. M. C. A. secretaries sent to Rumania since 1919 was Mr. Brown. In the early days Rumanians felt that it was an unpardonable impudence for the U. S. to send them missionaries of any sort. The Orthodox Church was opposed to the Y. M. C. A.; Rumanian students threatened the secretaries with assault. Under efficient Mr. Brown all these difficulties were straightened...
There is where the boy, having survived the puncture of his heart, ran his second greatest risk. One branch of the aorta goes to the head and brain. The other branch goes to the trunk and limbs. Had the bullet been carried by the flowing blood and pulsing artery up toward the brain, it would quickly have plugged some small bore artery, caused quick death. Instead, the pellet turned downward, worked into the left iliac artery, then the left femoral. Surgeons last week left it there, hoping it would work further down the leg where its removal would be less...
...inventing a way of seeing nerves grow in a live tadpole's tail. He clamped an embryonic frog under his microscope and indirectly illuminated the tail by a method called "dark field lighting." Thus over periods of weeks he was able to see that nerves branch out from the spinal cord and spread, like the roots and branches of a plant, into all parts of the body. His lighting method also enabled him to see that a cut nerve cannot be spliced and made to function again. New nerve material must grow out from the root, repair the damage...
...Strong described the way to wipe out one branch of the disease, which is caused by threadlike worms that have preyed on man since before the days of the pyramids. The worms, which are known by scientists as the "family filariidae' and look like long cotton threads, live in warm climates from Charleston to the Argentine, and from Italy to Australia, and attack men, animals, birds, fish, and snakes. In man they cause the terrible swellings of limbs and other parts of the body called elephantiasis, sometimes blindness, tumors and skin eruptions. Infections received through worm attacks may cause death...