Word: branching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposing an amendment to the Constitution under which all measures finally enacted by Congress would be valid under the Constitution whenever called into question." To all intents and purposes, the suggestion might have read "that the Federation indorse a joint resolution in Congress proposing the abolition of the Judicial branch of the government...
...introduction to his subject, Mr. Clay told of industrial conditions in England before the war, showing particularly the organization of labor and wages to be on a district standard. He also outlined the growing demand of labor for national organization, which had result in one branch--the Miners, but had nowhere reached the wage scales or the owners...
...bankers have been making surprising progress in the expansion of their activities in Colombia. Before the war we were supplying 27 per cent of the total imports of that country, and but little effective headway was being made toward improvement, primarily because of the entire absence of American branch banks and of thoroughly American mercantile agencies. Today our commercial interests in Colombia are being aggressively developed through fifteen branch banks, an American Chamber of Commerce, and at least twenty large and well planned distributing organizations. This explains in large measure the growth in our share of Colombia's import trade...
Under the new plans the entrance requirements for students intending to become engineers will remain the same as those for admission to the courses leading to degrees in the arts and sciences. During the first year all engineering students, regardless or which branch they elect later, will pursue the same studies, which correspond to those now given in the freshman year of the civil engineer curriculum They include analytical geometry, calculus, chemistry, engineering drawing English, a foreign language, and hygiene and physical-education...
Educationally too Oxford has much to offer him. Most Americans who enter as undergraduates are excused from the work of the first year and begin at once on an "Honor School" a broad course of reading and study in some branch of learning carried on for two full years under the personal direction of a "tutor." Among these schools the oldest and most famous is Literae Humaniones (Classics, and Philosophy). Others are Modern History, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Theology, English and Modern Languages. After two years at one of these the student is tested by a series of comprehensive examinations...