Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Ever since Argentina's hard-shelled, old-guard conservative politicos combined with a rebellious branch of the Radical Party to put President Ortiz and Vice President Ramon S. Castillo into office in 1938, they had wriggled with impatience...
Oldsters who can remember the Chester A. Arthur era of U. S. horse racing will never forget Monmouth Park. There, on the petticoat of Jersey's fashionable Long Branch, the Jersey Derby set a vogue for U.S. derbies. There, in 1872, in one of the greatest match races of all time, Longfellow, son of British-bred Leamington, licked Harry Bassett, son of Kentucky-bred Lexington. There, in 1890, James Ben Ali Haggin's immortal Salvator ran a mile in 1:35½-a record that stood for over a quarter of a century...
Buck Teeth, Cauliflower Ears. A popular branch of veterinary medicine is dog and cat beautification. Dr. Alan C. Secord of Toronto corrects buck teeth in dogs with wire braces, like those worn by children. Dr. Hadley Carruthers Stephenson of Cornell said that dogs may develop cauliflower ears by "scrubbing" their itching ears on the ground. Remedy: plastic surgery...
...famed "triple crown" (the Epsom Derby, Two Thousand Guineas and St. Leger Stakes)-something that only 13 other thoroughbreds had accomplished during 130 years of British horse racing. At stud, Bahram's blood lines were important to British racing. But last month, when the Nazis confiscated the French branch of the Aga Khan's fabulous stable, the Indian potentate, stranded on a Swiss Alp (TIME, Aug. 19), decided to sell his priceless Bahram-for a sum close to a quarter of a million dollars...
...land over a ground covered with corpses and submerged in a deluge of violence, seems to have returned to that ark of the new alliance, the heart of Jesus, to reappear only when it will finally be able to pluck from the tree of the gospel the green branch of brotherly chanty among men and peoples...