Word: branching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Address the envelope which comes with the blank to that branch of the service to which you were last assigned-to the Adjutant General, Bureau of Navigation, or Marine Corps, in Washington...
...Moscow's big parade every branch of the army took part, and there were Red sailors, too. Caucasian cavalry dashed by, their gleaming sabres at salute, their long black capes flowing behind; protection troops, wearing their round astrakhan caps, passed by, a little regiment of dwarfs, to the tune of the famed "Volga Boat song"; then came the Turkoman cavalry at a sharp trot, wearing their huge black shakos and great ponchos. Many of the civilian men and women wore weird costumes of the Middle Ages...
...that no one, least of all the Vagabond himself, who was not present at the time, knows rightly whether, so to speak, the family jewels are paste or diamond. De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Very incidentally be it said, that the present Mr. Joseph Forecast belongs to a collateral branch of the family though it is not always well on Beacon Hill to admit that he comes from Shemokin...
Meanwhile one of Sir Alfred's daughters, Eva Violet, had married (1914) Gerald Rufus Isaacs, Viscount Erleigh, only son and heir of the Marquess of Reading. His second daughter, Angela Mary, married (1922) Sir Neville Pearson, English newspaper proprietor and publisher. The only son of this Mond branch, Henry, chairman of the Mondson Chemical Co., married a Transvaal girl, Amy Gwen Wilson...
...council, according to A W Samborski '26. Director of Intramural Athletics, will be composed of undergraduates and graduate students chosen as representatives by the various clubs, fraternities, publications, and other organizations interested in any branch of infra-University competition. The committee will enter teams on the roster of the several recognized sports and will draw up schedules, make rules and regulations and settle any problem concerning this type of athletics...