Word: branching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill for reorganizing the executive branch of the Government will come up and has a good chance of passage...
STRAWS AND PRAYER-BOOKS?James Branch Cabell?McBride ($2.50). All life, Mr. Cabell points out, is a pleasant fiction. "No child plays with a straw: he brandishes a sword. . . . The young man, exultant, terrified, touches and uncovers, not an expanse of epidermis and small hairs and sweat glands, but the body of a goddess . . . and the aged clasp not a prayer-book but the key to eternal bliss." "Reflection finds the circumstance unfortunate that most of the agreeable actions of life are either forbidden or else deplorably behedged with restrictions...
...James Branch Cabell...
...almost unparalleled length of service of fifty years. During many years he has received little or no remuneration, and yet himself subscribed liberally to the building fund when the new school was built. He has seen in his lifetime dentistry develop from something mainly an art into an important branch of the medical profession--a result to which his own labors have contributed. It is to be earnestly hoped that he may be commemorated by an endowment of a chair that will bear his name...
...Harvard Catholic Forum will branch out into a new field tonight when it will hold the first of a series of informal discussions on various subjects at 8 o'clock in 12 Stoughton Hall. This meeting will be open to all members of the University...