Word: offshoot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Turmwachter," or Tower Watchers, is the name of a new German Club started by J. M. Hawkes '26, instructor in German. This organization is an offshoot of the German Sing-Song that has been held in Lowell House Tower Room for the last three years. There has been no German Club in the University for 15 years, and Hawkes hopes to further the interest in the language which was started with the advent of the Sing-Song. The club will hold two meetings monthly, on the first and third Wednesday's with the first one immediately after the Mid-Year...
...bearded Premier ("Old Fox") Inukai is heavily dependent on Japan's various supernationalistic secret societies. It did not, take the police long to discover that Mr. Inouye's pale little assassin was a member of a society known as the Seisanto which in turn is an offshoot of the formidable Kosuikai or Black Dragon Society, closely allied to the War Party of Premier Inukai...
...field. All along it his expeditions are camped. They include: Luxor, up the Nile, headquarters for all Egyptian explorations; Abydos, lower down; Sakkara and Cairo, at the delta; in Asia Minor, Megiddo, on the Jordan; Calneh, at the Eastern tip of the Mediterranean. Leaving the crescent, an offshoot expedition has settled in Alishar, halfway between the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Inland on the Tigris is the Khorsabad expedition, near the site of Nineveh; down the Tigris in ancient Babylonia, the neighboring expeditions at Tell Asmar and Khafaji. From these strategic points the Oriental Institute can send out small parties...
Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-77) was no flower of Southern chivalry but a tough offshoot of Tennessee pioneers. He talked like a poor white; it is doubtful if he ever read a book on tactics; but he fought like the devil. Biographer Lytle, strong Forrest partisan, implies that if Forrest's abilities had been recognized in time the western campaign might have had a different outcome. But Forrest's commander was General Braxton Bragg, whom Forrest soon distrusted, finally despised. One day he stamped into Bragg's tent, spoke thus: "You may as well not issue any more orders...
...quivers of the gestating universe and the twitchings of dying matter. It is supposed that when vagabond rhythms of space collide and entangle, a pristine atom is born and a cosmic ray darts away from the medley, that when aged protons and electrons bash each other to death, the offshoot of their antagonism is a cosmic...