Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baker Library has recently received all of the business manuscripts of the Boston Public Library, of which it is a branch. Archivists are now working on the arrangement of these manuscripts, "which," says Professor Cole, "must be consulted by anyone anxious to become really acquainted with the business conditions of the times he is studying...
...studying with his uncle Yu-ti'en, famed musician and virtuoso on the stringed hu-k'in. When he was twelve, Mei Lan-fang, grandson of a great actor of the '50s, made his own debut as a tan (female impersonator). The impersonation of women is perhaps the greatest branch of Chinese acting, for women are not permitted on the stage.* Mei Lan-fang plays women's rôles entirely. He is president of Peiping's Actors' Association and his superiority in his calling is unquestioned...
Rockwell Kent, artist, author (Voyaging, Wilderness?), inconvenienced by the discontinuance of railroad service at his Ausable Forks, N. Y. farm, wrote the Public Service Commission, saying that for five months no trains had run on the Ausable Forks-Plattsburg branch of the Delaware & Hudson R. R. Said he: "No application was ever made to the commission by the railroad for permission to discontinue service ... the severance of all railroad passenger communication with the main line will injuriously affect the growth of the communities surrounding it, the value of the real estate and the volume of local trade in the communities...
...American Airways completed the first year of its service from Miami, through Central American countries, to the Canal Zone. As everyone knows, its lines run thence down the West coast of South America to Santiago, and thence across the Andes to Buenos Aires. Another branch circles the entire Caribbean Sea. A main line wends from Miami to Trinidad down the South American East coast to Paramaribo (TIME, July...
...watching her peasants plowing, she saw a yoke of oxen sprawl into the ground. After extricating the animals, searchers found a series of unknown, unrifled tombs. Chief among them was that of an Etruscan hero, shrouded in blue and white gauze, with his little possessions around him, even a branch of laurel, still green. A coin in the tomb dated it about the 3rd century...