Word: offshoot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newspapers, as they often do, last week brandished scant information of a new antiseptic-"monsol," synthesized by the Mondson Refining Co. This British concern is an offshoot of Sir Alfred Mend's industrial chemistry activities. His son Henry is its chairman. Scientific details they seemed chary in giving to the reporters. However, they did relate the drug's use, which the New York Times reported: "It can be applied to the skin and even to the tongue without burning and can be swallowed. More amazing still, it can even be injected into the blood stream, whereas few substances...
Significance. Chiang Kai-shek's withdrawal reduced to insignificance the offshoot Nationalist regime at Nanking which Chiang had headed* placing the parent nationalist regime at Hankow once more in com plete mastery of nationalist affairs. Nominally the "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang intervened in the interest of Hankow; but his reputation for treachery is such that Chinese thought that he would soon attempt to seize the whole Nationalist territory himself...
Occidentals recalled that the late King Rama VI (TIME, Dec. 7, 1925) introduced a resplendent offshoot of the Boy Scout movement into Siam and went about attended by Boy Scouts who were actually potent nobles clad in uniforms of his invention, portentous with insignia and crowned with regulation felt hats bedecked with plumes...
...likewise introduced an extravagant offshoot of the Boy Scouts into Siam and assisted Queen Lakshmi in the creation of Siamese Girl Guides and the Royal Wild Tiger Corps. Since Rama's father, King Chulalongkorn, had left behind him 600 widows, 134 sons and 236 daughters, it was considered highly scandalous that Rama IV had no sons...
...Pope Gregory the Great (540-604), who established numerous hospices in the Holy Land. After the capture of Jerusalem in 1099, the Order of St. John the Baptist at that place became the cradle of the numerous orders of St. John of Jerusalem, of which a still surviving offshoot exists in England, Germany, Italy, Silesia...