Word: roote
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover telegraphed him congratulations on the dedication of the Institute. Secretary Mellon and his brother telegraphed him the promise of $30,000 for a research fellowship. Adolph Lewisohn, Manhattan banker, telegraphed another $30,000. Near Dr. and Mrs. Wilmer at the dedi cation ceremonies sat Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root Breckinridge, wife of Wilson's first Assistant Secretary of War. She raised the $4,000,000 which financed the Institute, because Dr. Wilmer saved her eyesight six years ago. Lacking the necessary millions herself, she coaxed Dr. Wilmers Negro office servant William to give her a list of rich...
Facts are now out for most of the first round arguments. The following clubs will meet in the early competitions: Beal vs. Morgan; Bracton vs. Van Devanter; Bryce vs. Taft; Burke vs. Sayre; Cardozo vs. Powell; Chafee vs. Sanford; Choate Parsons vs. Coke; G. Gray vs. Root; Hudson vs. Sayre; Kent vs. Williston; Lowell vs. Thayer-Holmes; Marshall vs. Scott; Plumer vs. Pound; Pollock vs. Warren; Reading vs. Sutherland; J. Smith vs. Story...
...seven pitched balls. Every delivery, made with a sidearm motion wide of the box, kept the ball lined against a blind spot, made by some extra bleachers in the green outfield, which Ehmke had noticed in practice. Rallying behind him, the Athletics took enough hits from Chicago Pitcher Charley Root...
Fourth Game. Pitcher Charlie Root had kept the Athletics to three scattered hits and the Cubs were leading 8 to 0 when Left Fielder Simmons of Philadelphia came up to bat in the seventh inning. While a phonograph pushed up against amplifiers played "I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling" and the crowd screamed as no World Series crowd has screamed for a decade, Simmons hit a home run; Foxx, Miller, Dykes, Boley and Bishop singled. Old left-handed Arthur Nehf, who used to pitch for the Giants, went in for Root. Then Pitcher Blake went...
Then came the Spanish American War in 1898. Classes were graduated early; that of 1898 two months ahead of schedule; 1899 nearly four months early. The war was short but vigorous, and the ultimate results shed more glory on the name of West Point. Elihu Root, then Secretary of War, in 1899 reported upon the Military Academy:--"I believe that the great services it has rendered the country were never more conspicuous than it has been during the past two years. The faithful and efficient services of its graduates since the declaration of war with Spain have more than repaid...