Word: rooted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retains at least a portion of the Administration's pet undistributed profits and capital gains tax. Excerpt: "The repeal of the undistributed profits tax and the reduction of the tax on capital gains to a fraction of the tax on other forms of income strike at the root of fundamental principles of taxation...
Free cigarettes provided by Leavitt and Peirce, 21 cases of root beer furnished by Hires Root Beer company, and all the ice cream that you can eat will be distributed. All guests will be given souvenir pipes during the performance. All Freshmen will be admitted and upperclassmen are welcome as long as there is room. The doors will open at about 10 o'clock...
Association or federal union of Austria with Germany on "equal" terms had been the dream of most Austrians since the War, and for this Kurt von Schuschnigg had worked until as a Christian he became convinced that the Nazis at root are brutal pagans whose object is subjugation of Christian Austria. In speaking of Germans apart from Nazis, Christian Kurt von Schuschnigg up to a few weeks ago was still repeating, "We are good Germans, but always true Austrians!"-for the average Austrian thinks of himself as "German" in blood and soul...
Distinct advances have been made on the problem of converting the active principle of sarsparilla root into sex hormones. Fry probably will be engaged in continuation of the same problem...
...teaching a work with emphasis on its modern practical aspects rather than on its purely factual and historical content" is summed up in Gradgrind's "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root up everything else...