Word: offshoot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week's honors for Mary Reed were part of the 34th annual meeting of the American Mission to Lepers, an interdenominational Protestant offshoot of the 67-year-old British Mission to Lepers. Together the two operate 200 colonies for 150,000 lepers in 48 countries. This year the American Mission raised $300,000 for its work. This is a new high record-but it is only $2 per leper in the church colonies, and less than 6? each for the five to ten million lepers in the world...
...world's champion). But in the novice class was a perky 13-year-old, Anne Robinson, a collateral descendant of Jackson Haines. Little Anne has been skating only three years, but she won the Eastern championship four weeks ago. Last week, in her first national tournament, the Haines offshoot lost her poise, finished eighth; but experts predicted that she would do better...
...Morgan's underwriting offshoot), went to court to change her name to Charlotte Elizabeth-at Elizabeth...