Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...educated eye open for signs that Congressmen and Senators are doing what his books show they have so often done in the past-talk abstract principles while advocating legislation in the economic interest of their section or class. A few miles from the parental household in Connecticut the younger branch of the Beard historical menage-Daughter Miriam, her husband Dr. Vagts and their precocious eight-year-old son Detlev- live in even greater retirement in a new brick house that has an electric dishwashing machine, but also no radio, no telephone. When Miriam Beard and Alfred Vagts were married, Vagts...
There is little real need for social service workers as such. The City of Cambridge is able and anxious to supervise youngsters in their idle hours. The Recreation Division, a branch of the Cambridge Park Department under the direction of Mr. Stephen H. Mahoney, was set up several years ago for this very purpose. Playgrounds have been appropriated, equipped with field-houses and outdoor apparatus, and manned with experienced workers. Two of these fields--the Robert E. Hoyt and the Corporal Burns--are in the immediate vicinity of Harvard...
...this was forgotten as the full force of El Caudillo's war machine rolled closer. To make as short work as possible of the Rightist defense within the city, miners blew the remains of the Bank of Spain branch sky high, burying an unknown number of men, women and children in the debris. Soon the Battle of Teruel became a battle of all nations as the U. S. Abraham Lincoln Battalion and other foreign battalions moved into the Leftist lines. New Year's Eve saw Spaniards, Italians, U. S. citizens, Moors, Germans, Czechs and Frenchmen all fighting...
...Angeles, San Francisco, Baltimore, New York, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee. For two years Elliott ably managed Hearst's southwest network and only three months ago took charge of the West Coast outlets. In October (TIME, Nov. 11), Hearst's 27-year-old Radioman Roosevelt announced he would soon branch out as a radio commentator, but his new job may cramp his style and leave too little time for spieling...
...martinet sat on the highest branch of the tree...