Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comes to the District of Columbia. On that day, each year, shivering photographers, muffled to the cheekbones, escort a beauteous damsel to the Tidal Basin and tell her to go climb a tree. Usually the Cherry Blossom Queen, posing as regally as possible while sitting on a knobby tree branch, gets runs in her stockings, barked knuckles and a ruffled temper...
...Jersey College for Women, a branch of Rutgers University, has an enterprising journalism department. Three months ago it sent several students on a practice assignment: to investigate the disappearance of Dr. Erhard Fernholz, a research chemist at the Squibb Institute in New Brunswick, N. J., who went for a walk in Princeton last December and was never seen alive again.* The students interviewed a Squibb official. He snapped: "Why bother us when you have a disappearance in your own back yard...
Italo-Americans of the Boston area will have a chance to discuss their stand in relation to the war at 7.30 o'clock tomorrow night when the Massachusetts branch of the Mazzini Society holds a mass meeting in Faneuil Hall...
Eight members of the Outing Club will soon take their "final-examinations" in a six weeks first-all course being given at the Garland School in Boston under the auspices of the newly formed Boston Metropolitan Ski Patrol, a branch of the National Ski Patrol...
...Bundles for Britain," a rapidly spreading organization for the clothing relief of England, opened a Boston branch last week. In Cambridge, Harvard men may leave their contributions at 55 Brattle Street in care of Mrs. Bruce C. Hopper...