Word: roote
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...medicine--should be limited to one seat, the number which they are forced, very much against their will, to accept now. These men are asked to contribute to the various drives of the University, they are eligible and energetic workers at the many Harvard Clubs, and if they do root for the opposing team, do so only in the few cases where this team happens to be also their alma mater or when they are piqued at having to attend the game, unlike the Harvard College graduate, alone...
...International Shakespeare Association. Inc., and allowed his name to be used in a drive for funds. Disillusionment came when he found that protectorate was not the fund which is being collected for a Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon, already supplied with an honorary president in Elihu Root, but rather the brain-child of Dr. W. E. Dentinger, osteopath and musico-therapeutist, who is planning a Broadway Shakespeare shrine. Mayor Walker instantly withdrew his name...
Said Sir Eric: "We now have a council chamber that is at once a monument to what has been accomplished and a symbol of future harmony. ... In the bad old days in industry, before the round-the-table idea had taken root, operatives knew nothing and cared less about the difficulties of management. ... It is not too much to say that the increasing cooperation of our operatives has been a most important factor in steering this organization into smoother financial waters...
...would be willing to "remove from office upon proper proof being presented, any public official charged with laxity in enforcement of the law." But he repeated: "Law enforcement must of necessity begin with arrest. Too many misinformed people look for detailed enforcement from the head rather than from the root of police power...
Landis--Armstrong, Baker v. Root--Resch, Roberts