Word: roote
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long on the bench, the Chicago Club should be the next champion. Outstanding Chicagoans are Infielder Rogers Hornsby and Outfielders Hack Wilson (who recently got into a fist fight with a Cincinnati player), Riggs Stephenson, Kiki Cuyler. The Chicago Club has three first rate pitchers (Guy Bush, Charlie Root, Pat Malone) precisely two more than most of its competitors can muster...
...native food of the Pacific Islanders. On the West Coast of the Pacific in China and Japan the native food is rice, a grain. On the East side the American aborigines used maize or Indian corn, also a grain, whereas we find the Pacific Islanders .using Taro, a root, which seems indicative of an entirely distinct racial origin. The youngest son, James Wilder, while at Harvard, introduced the Ukulele, and Hawaiian Music. He is a noted artist, and is known to every Boy Scout of America as Pathfinder Jim, Chief Sea Scout, the man who organized the Sea Scouts...
...assertion of itself. It is thorny and disagreeable to the touch, a thing we do not want in a national flower. If it is picked, it wilts in a few minutes. It comes out a beautiful pink, but before it dies it has faded to a colorless existence. Farmers root it out, as its luxuriant growth soon ruins the fences over which it sprangles. Not one of the phases of its short life, is connected with our desires in a national emblem. The only claim it has upon us that it is fragrant, and pretty, whereas the columbine from...
...Root Jr., son of an Elder Statesman, saved the situation. Said he: "Yes, Your Majesty, we recognized you." The other owner and skipper, Paul Hammond, kept his eyes on the sails...
Article 36 was written.by Elihu Root in 1920. It has already been accepted by 47 of the 52 World Court nations. Japan is willing to accept it when all the other nations do. Until last week Great Britain and Italy were the only two large powers remaining aloof...