Word: branching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were left standing in the Prado. Half the windows in the city were broken; many roofs blown away; several ships sunk in the harbor. The horses at the track-had run off through the ruins of their stables. The windows of the Havana Automobile Co. and the Ford Motor Branch were blown in. Camp Columbia had vanished. Ambulance surgeons began making up a death list;* truly the hurricane, blowing cone-shaped out of the West Indies, had done its work. And in the middle of Havana the American monument lay on its face...
...certain U. S. bankers, who predicted a fortnight ago* that five or six branch banking institutions would control banking in this country foreseen last week's news, they might have been even more vigorous in their condemnation of the McFadden branch banking bill and its Hull amendments...
...JAMES BRANCH CABELL is fond of pointing out that two-thirds of fiction consists of variations of the Cinderella myth. "Miss Tiverton Goes Out" upholds this theory; but the Juliet of the story is a new kind of Cinderella. She has looked carefully at the Prince's clay feet and already knows too much about the ashes on the hearth: she comes to the unconventional conclusion that she desires no portion in either...
...Gold Coast Orchestra, of the Specialty branch of the Instrumental organization, headed this year by C. E. Henderson '28, will have phonograph records made of some of its dance interpretations. Radio broadcasting will be another feature of its work this year. The Gold Coast players will furnish dance music, ranging from the classical to the barbaric, at all the scheduled concerts this season, and will play at the end of each concert for the benefit of those who wish to dance...
...obstacle to an eight weeks' roundtrip; that a passenger route to Peking was perfectly practicable, to be flown in stages with a total of six or seven days in the air. The Lufthansa promptly advertised a provisional service of 40 Berlin-Peking flights for next summer, perhaps with branch lines to Vladivostok and Shanghai...