Word: branching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That such an elaborate institution should be set up by the munificence of one of the nations foremost financiers for the sake of a branch of erudition that was considered a vast of energy twenty for the sake of a branch of erudition that vast field of evidence that shows what rapid strides have been made by economics in recent years. It used to be called the dusty dismal science theoretically abstruse aloof from the workaday would. In the present age when the economic is woven with or even dominates the political and social as never before...
Since 1922 Professor Adams has traveled around the world on a lecturing tour that included all the universities of New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa. He has lectured in many American universities and has been a lecturer this year in the southern branch of the University of California. Last summer he served as lecturer at the Summer School of the University of California at Berkeley...
...James Branch ("Jurgen") Cabell...
...staff can possibly be expected to find its way round. Only expert special librarians can keep the material properly catalogued, filed and ready for quick reference. Some cities of the United States are now spending tens of thousands of dollars annually to maintain such reference service in the "business branch" of their public libraries...
Moreover, the agreement definitely promises to make the full resources of the two institutions directly available to any future business branch of the Boston Public Library which may be established in the downtown district. Time and again the librarian and trustees of the Boston Public Library have labored to secure decent attention from the Boston City Council for such a branch, similar to the business branches which progressive cities elsewhere throughout the Nation have established. And time and again their efforts have been thrown down, because members of the City Council, have called this "mere graft" for the business community...