Word: offshoot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bridge. No one was greatly surprised when the Guild, one of the youngest U. S. craft unions, met in St. Louis last week and voted to turn itself into an industrial union and to join the Committee for Industrial Organization, A. F. of L.'s insurgent offshoot. The only embarrassing aspect of this switch was that the Guild borrowed $2,000 from the A. F. of L. after voting to affiliate last spring and has not yet paid it back. That it could and would soon was evident from the healthy statistics brought out at the thriving union...
...that the appropriation may be increased if interest warrants it. Members of the faculty of the school are doubtful about the number of students who will be attracted to city planning next fall, because no gnage of popularity on the basis of previous years is available. The school, an offshoot of the Department of Landscape Architecture, was first set up as a separate department seven years ago, financed by Rockefeller money. When this money was no longer available, the school went into a scholarly hibernation during which it was still called one of the best in the country...
...first that a skull so human could be associated with a jaw so apelike, but present-day consensus is that the fragments actually belonged to one individual. Most anthropologists-notably excepting Sir Arthur Keith-hold that the Piltdown man, like the Pekin man and the Java apeman, were offshoot types which died out and were not on the ancestral line of Homo sapiens. Nevertheless Piltdown appeared to be the oldest near-human inhabitant of England to come to light, and his age was variously estimated at 100,000 to 300,000 years...
...History Society are also ruled from the distaff side. The former, whose honorary chairman is Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, is a coalition of female societies. It is currently sponsoring discussion groups or "Marathon Round Tables." The New History Society, founded by Mrs. Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, is an offshoot of the Bahai Religion. Mrs. Chanler and her peace-loving friends belong to the "Green International" wear green shirts when participating in peace demonstrations...
...definitions. Last week for the first, time since the Securities Act became effective, an advertisement for a new issue appeared in the oldtime form of a one-page prospectus. The firm that plunged with an offering of $45,000,000 Illinois Bell Telephone bonds was Morgan Stanley & Co., underwriting offshoot of the House of Morgan. Meticulously the Morgan advertisement referred readers to the offering prospectus and the registration statement "which also include important information not outlined or indicated herein...