Word: branches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Advancing Communist armies have forced the Chinese director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute to flee with his staff room Yenching University in Peking, an official of the Cambridge branch revealed yesterday...
...Month, which his brother Paul's publishers backed, to a circulation of 65,000, and he was an enterprising, ambitious editor of Delineator from 1907 to 1910, when an office scandal forced him out. In 1932, he helped Ernest Boyd, George Jean Nathan, James Branch Cabell and Eugene O'Neill to launch the short-lived American Spectator (which the "tired" editors closed down...
...basis of Metro's interest in the Legal Medicine branch of the Medical School stems, from its function of assisting the state police in the investigation of sudden deaths, including murders. The department teaches legal medicine to both Medical and Law students...
...neither expects nor inspires pomp & circumstance, he still likes to sit up late over a poker table, drinks branch water and bourbon, and roars when his military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, tells an off-color joke. He has learned to duck embarrassing questions, but he is still capable of insisting stubbornly that the spy hearings are "a red herring" long after the charge has become ridiculous...
...means scientific only. He is a great reader of Victorian novels, and of Trollope and Dickens especially. 'And what about detective stories?' I asked. 'Why, of course, two or three a week, especially by women authors, who have got male authors beaten in this branch of fiction...