Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Achuni was taken for his most recent afternoon promenade, he committed a definite breach of etiquette by mistaking a silken limb for a tree branch and starting to make the ascent. Fortunately a disaster was averted by quick thinking on the part of a passer-by who plucked the animal from his shapely "tree" and set him to earth again...
...Rockefeller, Jewish Governor Lehman and twelve other bigwigs, small, genial President Gannon had a wonderful time. He showed his guests an up-to-date university: Fordham has a big-time football team, a world-famed seismograph (earthquake-recording) station, a Nobel Prize winner (Physicist Victor F. Hess), a downtown branch in the Woolworth Building, schools of law, business, social service, pharmacy. Of Fordham's 8,200 students, only 1,400 are in its liberal arts college...
...Intention of the rules," said Dean Leighton, "Is that every student shall have some acquaintance at college level with certain representative studies essential to a liberal education and that every student shall at the same time have full opportunity to become as thoroughly versed as possible in some one branch of learning...
What remains is, unfortunately, as dubious as the "conversion." For we are treated first to a series of declarations of faith without any rational foundation for them whatever, and then to a description of the present status of our foreign policy which, if true, makes traitors of the Executive branch of the federal government...
...CRIMSON really believes that England, China, and Russia are military allies of the United States, then they must believe that we are at war. But we are certainly not legally at war. In which case the Executive branch has flatly violated the Constitution by seizing the armed forces and making them subservient to their own private whims. Which is, of course, treason. If this is a true description of the present situation, then the Executive branch should forthwith be tried and convicted of treason and summarily hanged, as duly provided...