Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dictatorship a la Mussolini. . . . Its enemies are Communism and Free Masonry. (Here I remind you that Free Masonry in France has no resemblance to the very fine organization of the same name in other parts of the world. American and English Free Masons are forbidden to recognize this bastard branch of France to whose activities many dark pages in French history can be traced.) . . . Fascism is only the label given this fine organization by its enemies - a false statement to spread unjust propaganda. . . . EVELYNE GREIG Paris, France...
...example of zeal being known in Russia as "Stalin's Revenge." Commissar Grigoriy Prokofiev of the Ogpu Industrial Section, who attends to such matters as having Russian engineers, after a factory breakdown, "shot for sabotage." Commissar Terenty Deribas of the Ogpu Far East Section, perhaps its most romantic branch. In Mongolia and other nomadic border lands the natives are under an impression, perhaps mistaken, that a local chieftain whom the Ogpu considers superfluous often dies from the prick of a poisoned nail in his saddle. Commissar Stanislas Redens of the Ogpu Moscow Section. Commissar Leonid Zakovsky of the Ogpu...
...high specialization as is represented by the proposal of this plan. For perfectly obvious and understandable reasons a college curriculum tends to fall into the hands of specialists working in water-tight compartments of knowledge and instinctively holding the bulkheads tightly closed that if opened would articulate one branch of knowledge with another. The inevitable result of this is failure on the part of institutions of higher education to make clear to undergraduates anything even mildly suggestive of the fact that there is a unity to all knowledge and that any isolated branch of knowledge. is of insignificant consequence...
...that is fought along strict Marxist lines in The Crisis of the Middle Class, but they are likely to remember Author Corey's account of the intrigues and maneuvers of a professional revolutionary of the middle class named Samuel Adams. In Boston, Adams organized a secret and illegal branch of The Sons of Liberty, originally a mechanics' society, urging demonstrations, boycotts, violence, to force changes in British laws that blocked colonial enterprise. Although concessions were granted in 1770, wealthy merchants were not won over to the idea of independence, preferred the handicaps of British rule to the dangers...
These fellowships, each amounting to $500, are awarded to American students in their last year at college or in graduate work. Each candidate must submit evidence of distinction in some branch of learning and must present a definite scheme of study or research...