Word: branching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate he has become "a lion for efficiency, a tiger for economy, a wolf for detail." No branch of the Government was too obscure for him to explore. The U. S. Bureau of Efficiency is his legislative child. But in the confusion of Senate debate, Senator Smoot gives no hint of his great influence. His voice is thin and quarrelsome. Senatorial badgers easily fluster him. He tries to smother them under a blanket of indisputable statistics, only to scold them for their mockery of his "facts...
...thousand and sixty-six men have competed in intramural sports this winter, it was revealed in statistics compiled yesterday by A. W. Samborski '26, director of this branch of the University's athletics. The total number of participators, however, is increased to 1222, for some men were engaged in more than one sport...
...East or- ganization; large salaries are not at all the exception and the Company has a retirement plan as well. When a man goes with the Standard, however, he separates himself from Continental United States. The Company has no plan for men to return to the American branch of the organization. It expects its men in foreign service to remain in the Far East indefinitely. To men of a more or less adventurous spirit who are interested in the possibilities of a large organization which promises good rewards in a distant field, this Company is distinctly deserving of careful investigation
...opinion that instead of a mature and natural social hierarchy Harvard College possesses a caste system. If some of the most ardent standard bearers of the reform ever have to live in the Houses, they will probably be disappointed to discover that proximity only exaggerates the branch between perfectly natural Harvard undergraduate social groups...
Through the agency of their press American universities are rapidly extending the field of their usefulness in the publication of valuable books and also in periodical work. In undertaking a new review, American Literature, the Duke University Press promises an interesting addition to the branch of magazine enterprise which includes such notable examples as The Yale Review and the University of Virginia Quarterly...