Word: roote
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...begin. With the help of Secretary of Commerce Hoover it is going to establish a fund of 20 millions to rescue genius from "conditions that stifle independent research." It has consulted 30 college presidents and many another notable?Andrew W. Mellon, Charles E. Hughes, John W. Davis, Elihu Root, Vernon L. Kellogg, Colonel Edward M. House, et al.?and one and all are agreed that time and money should be laid aside to guard and fan sparks of the kind that have lately blazed up into the automobile, airplane and radio. The broadest powers are to be given...
...enacted laws to require the teaching of communism. Either the state of New York or Soviet Russia was wrong about communism, and they were both wrong about education. The rigid application of a pattern can have no result other than to stifle that intellectual audacity which lies at the root of all educational progress...
...produce to neighbors. Here among the cabbage tops, the bean vines and the other garden truck Henry John used to play. In the house basement he used to watch his mother pickling and canning. The grating of horseradish was an eye-smarting task. But Mrs. Heinz' preparation of this root was so appetizing that it found a ready sale. Henry John was its eager boy salesman...
...Elihu Root celebrated his 81st birthday in Manhattan by holding no festivities, saying "It's just an ordinary...
...Ruggles put off for Chicago and asked Judge Olson to be chairman of a national society to promote this kind of executive direction in other courts. Judge Olson accepted and the American Judicature Society has since, as Lawyer Root said in his letter, served as a model for a vast amount of research. But only last week was it realized in high places that a public spirited layman was responsible. Only last week did Judge Olson declare: "No individual has contributed more toward court reform in the last 50 years than Mr. Ruggles...