Word: branches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first definite step in getting The Advocate back into print was taken yesterday when the Cambridge branch of the magazine's trustees announced that a four-man committee, headed by Donald B. Watt, Jr. '47, of Leverett House and Putney, Vermont, had been named to prepare the ground for a first issue...
Freshman Austin then hurried off to Chicago. Later, the press gave him additional education. He was pointedly informed that he had confused the Greek Pals (child) with pous (foot), that pediatrics was a branch of medicine dealing with children's diseases while podiatry (the word he might have had in mind) was the study of foot disorders...
...flatlands of China's Honan Province, near Chengchow, a tiny rivulet of muddy water oozed into a dried-up channel and meandered sluggishly toward Pohai Gulf, some 400 miles to the northeast. The rivulet, a man-made branch of the Yellow River, was the first fruit of the giant flood-control effort to thrust "China's Sorrow" back into its pre-1938 bed. In Shanghai, UNRRA Engineer Oliver J. Todd, director of the project (TIME, June 17), contemplated news of the trickle with mixed emotions. "Todd Almighty" knew that this was no dream come true; in fact...
This week the 21st branch "Borstal," on the Earl of Plymouth's Worcestershire estate, opened its doors. Working without supervision, an advance party of Borstal boys began to restore the Earl of Plymouth's formal gardens and help convert his 52-bedroom mansion into a home for 150 Borstal delinquents. In their spare time they studied engineering and carpentering. Before the Borstal boys arrived, the worried villagers had thrown up their hands at the prospect of such "rough, nasty" neighbors; now some of them had invited the boys into their homes...
Although this inquiry by the Senate Commerce Committee will embrace the question of safety precautions, House members urged a separate investigation by that branch of Congress...