Word: roote
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other invention is an explosive which consists of finely divided carbonaceous material (coal, root, etc.) which liquid air, under cautious control, ignites. It is "cheaper and more volatile than dynamite...
Probably because the Vagabond has never been there. Peru has always appealed to him as a country of romance, one of those places toward which there is the feeling. "Some day I shall go there." Perhaps the root of this feeling could be traced to the Vagabond's salad days when, in company with the vast majority of his contemporaries, he was an ardent if largely unsuccessful collector of foreign postage stamps, and spent pleasant hours gazing at brightly colored. Peruvian llamas perched precariously upon impossible rocky peaks...
Fertilizer was added to the root so to speak, when he read Prescott's account of the conquest of the country. And after all, he must be a hardened sophisticate who would not thrill over the expedition of Pizarro with his mere handful of men, an expedition of mingled courage and treachery that reads like a fairly tale...
...Taussig's objections to certain first year courses as being useless and elementary are undoubtedly logical. The root of this evil lies, however, rather with the system of secondary education than the governments of advanced institutions. Elementary courses are offered not because they are elementary but because presumably they fill a need. That need once removed, the vacuities in the Freshman mind once made whole with a firm foundation, the courses, theoretically, should cease. Such action has been evidenced in the College by announcement that English A exemptions are allowed to men whose abilities have been tested and found worthy...
...fact, is going to be planted on the site of his old favorite, he is beginning to show signs of his erstwhile cheerfulness. The famous picalo, laid away in the dust of Lampy's attic for many months, will be played by Bob at the laying of the corner-root. "This ceremony will be the most impressive that has ever been conducted since John Harvard staked out his claim by the banks of the Charles," admitted the Lampoon wit who is in complete charge of the dedication. "The elm is some ten feet high and flourishes, I am told, somewhere...