Word: offshoot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring of 1928, rangy, left-handed John Hope Doeg, offshoot of California's famed tennis-playing Suttons, quit his studies at Stanford to tune up with the U. S. Davis Cup squad. Conservative President Sumner Hardy of the California Tennis Association huffed & puffed and finally howled that the Davis Cup Committee was "making bums out of young tennis players...
After receiving this slap, the Strong Man ordered his stooge President Dr. Federico Laredo Bru to dissolve the Cuban falange, an offshoot of Spanish Fascism, and legalize the Cuban Communist Party, which soon boasted 25,000 dues-paying members. Strong Man Batista's subsequent spectacular State visits in Washington to New Dealer Roosevelt and in Mexico City to even Newer Dealer Cardenas seemed to go over big with the Cuban populace. The Strong Man's return from these visits was celebrated in Havana with unprecedented popular rejoicing and wild huzzas. Last week, the Communists swung into line behind...
...Square, Boston 50 years ago by M. I. T. Men Charles A. Stone and Edwin S. Webster. In that half-century they have over $1,000,000,000 of construction, $11,000,000,000 of appraisal work to their credit. In the last fortnight, Stone & Webster's engineering offshoot took in more orders than in 1939's first eight months, ran its backlog up to $31,000,000 and was dickering for another $15,000,000 worth of business. Its contracts billed in 1938 amounted to only...
Margaret Storm Jameson's Yorkshire novels are as tough and interrelated as the roots of a bush. Latest offshoot, The Captain's Wife, is not part of her big novel-in-progress, The Mirror in Darkness, but it shares some of the same characters. And they, like all the berries on Storm Jameson's bush, are as bittersweet as ever...
...Parachute Jump is an offshoot of a practical idea, employed since 1932 by the Soviet Union to help train military and civilian fliers. Today, at Hightstown, N. J.'s military training towers, the Jump corresponds to the first step in teaching aviators to bail out. At Hightstown it is called "captive drop with seat"; next comes "captive drop with harness"; there after, free drops without safety cables...