Word: branches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born, copper-bearded essayist and critic, famed for his caustic comments on modern manners & morals during the Greenwich Village literary renaissance of the 19203, once known as the most striking-looking figure of Manhattan's writing set; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. With George Jean Nathan, James Branch Cabell, Eugene O'Neill, he founded in 1932 the "literary newspaper" The American Spectator, for three years published the works of the nation's best writers, suddenly quit when he and his fellow editors "tired...
Busy, social-minded University students who have been patiently waiting for telephones in their rooms or apartments since the end of the war may have to use pay booths for another ten weeks, although B. A. Dwyer, business manager of the Cambridge Branch of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company announced Friday that his office is doing "everything possible" to shorten the wait of applicants...
...opening of the new lab marks a decade in the development in this new branch of science that promises a revolution in the methods and accomplishment of every division of knowledge that deals with finite quantitative problems, from economic statistics to astronomy. Representatives of a dozen departments in the University are casting a longing eye toward this wonder worker in hope that they will soon be able to get quick, effortless answers to problems which heretofore have taken prohibitive amounts of time and energy...
...strain of the day still lingers in mind and muscle), when the restless dust starts to settle back on the cotton fields, men gather on verandahs and wharves to sit and talk while they watch the bullbats nervously darting and swooping around the chimneys. Bourbon with water from the branch is in order-and low-voiced, scattered talk of high politics. Such a talk Jimmy Byrnes calls a "bullbat session." He loves them. In 1946 the bullbat session-bourbon, branch water and all-became (like the green baize and champagne of another day) an international diplomatic institution...
...left. Byrnes likes to recall that he was an idealist once, himself. "In 1918 I was a follower of Woodrow Wilson. I gloried in his idealism and in the magnificent effort he made to build the peace upon the Covenant of the League of Nations." But a lot of branch water has gone into the bourbon since then. Jimmy may still have Wilsonian visions; certainly, he can still recognize and use the traditional U.S. political principles. But Jimmy, an intensely practical man, is leading no crusades. He subscribes to the doctrine that "politics is the art of the possible...