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Word: branches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scheme. He knew that raven-locked Maria Conti, the only woman in Riofreddo who wore modern clothes, hated the drudgery of housework: she was a career woman at heart. Swinging his green umbrella. Father Francesco promptly departed to make Maria Conti head of the women's branch of Catholic Action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: MAMMON & THE GREEN UMBRELLA | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Models & Trends. The big jobs came. Invited to discuss alterations for Bullock's, Inc., they spoke so convincingly of a store "that would work like a machine" that they won the job of building Bullock's new Pasadena branch. Their brash argument: as they had never planned a store, they couldn't palm off an old plan. They built a scale model because "most people can't read blueprints or understand dimensions from sketches." After they got the contract they studied merchandising at Bullock's for a year before drawing final plans. They planned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: Walt & Welt | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...July, the telephone company hopes to have a new central office in operation, to be designated either "University" or a second branch of the present "Eliot" exchange. At that time, the large back-log will be served as quickly as the speed of installation permits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No New Phones Till July, Officials Say | 2/24/1948 | See Source »

...elect one delegate out of 600. The strongest political party in Palestine--Mapai--is a labor party, but so is Mr. Bevin's. The Soviet attitude towards Zionism has always been hostile. After the revolution Zionism as a political movement in the Soviet Union was destroyed root and branch. Hebrew is a banned language in Russia. Zionist leaders were imprisoned when the Russians took over Poland during the war. The Kremlin has consistently denounced Zionism, ironically enough as the "tool of British imperialism." Jewish refugees who have been offered citizenship in the Soviet Union have consistently refused, preferring to take...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 2/20/1948 | See Source »

...novice said. He departed in a whirl of snow. At the botton of the slope he encountered a low-hanging branch and became entangled with it. "Good Lord," the instructor said when caught up, "I told you that you had the wrong club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Easy: Your Head Down, Don't Press, Slow Backswing | 2/19/1948 | See Source »

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