Word: branching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Allied Governments have decided to deprive Greece of Smyrna, Thrace, and her other Asia Minor possessions. In resentment of this decree, Greece has launched against Turkey an offensive which has two objectives. In the first place, she is pushing toward the junction of the Bagdad Railroad and a branch line that leads to Angora. The second offensive is against Aflun-Kara Hissar, another railroad terminal. Here the operations are most important, because, if successful, the Greeks will cut off the Turks from Cilicia in their attempt to join their main army. Some 120,000 men are at present...
...follows that a just estimation of the actual return in excess of normal profit cannot in many cases be attained. The evaluation of the surplus income presents a problem no complex that even the Treasury Department can offer no general solution. The continual change in the personnel of that branch of the government leads to contradictory rulings and an irritating vacillation of policy...
...effort has been made to obtain for this branch of the Service young men, preferably university graduates who desire to specialize and make a career for themselves in the Oriental branches of the Consular Service. The Department is unable to allow candidates a choice as between service in China and Japan but in practice allows each successful candidate to state his preference and, as far as the exigencies of the Service permit, gives these preferences due consideration...
...least be started upon their cogitations in the classroom. General discussion and questions keep the students awake and force them to think intelligently. This is particularly advisable in the so-called "thinking courses"--economics and philosophy, for example; but it finds a ready application in almost every branch of the curriculum. At Harvard, where the lecture system is a favorite with the faculty, it is especially important to realize that it can be overdone when there is a failure to recognize the value of discussion in bringing out the utmost in a subject...
William H. Pickering, Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the University and head of the Mandeville Station in Jamaica, a branch of the University Astronomical Observatory, has been granted one year's leave of absence by the Corporation...