Word: roote
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These are the principal findings of Mr. Ewart. Britain is blamed for contributing a "root" by her "fear and hatred" of Germany, who menaced her numerous interests, and by becoming "openly an associate, and secretly a virtual war-ally of France and Russia." Germany appears the least guilty of the nations. Japan, Italy, Bulgaria and Rumania were non-contributaries to the cause of the War, merely participating out of self-interest...
...take root where Protestants with their Union Medical College, and the outstanding Peking University under President Leighton Stuart are already so well established? By emphasizing Chinese studies rather than European culture. Said Cardinal Van Rossum: "It is fitting . . . that the order of St. Benedict, which during the Middle Ages saved Latin and Greek culture from certain destruction, should found an institute of higher Chinese studies in the city of Peking, as the most apt means of fostering a more vigorous growth of our holy religion in the vast territory of China...
...Elihu Root...
...muster much enthusiasm for a remedy that merely alleviates a disease without getting down to the root causes of it. ... Some of the greatest specialists in the country have offered to come to Marion and treat me for this disease; but, when I found they had the insulin bug, I would have nothing to do with them...
...became more and more satisfied that drugs could do the disease no good. I finally became convinced that those who hold meat-eating to be one of the principal root causes of diabetes were right. For a year now, no meat has passed my lips. The change in my diet has produced results so marked that it seems little short of miraculous...