Word: rooted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rather not talk about, even if talking would teach them something. But for laymen, as Freud's theories spread, he emerged as the greatest killjoy in the history of human thought, transforming man's jokes and gentle pleasures into dreary and mysterious repressions, discovering hatreds at the root of love, malice at the heart of tenderness, incest in filial affections, guilt in generosity and the repressed hatred of one's father as a normal human inheritance...
Between 1921 and 1928 Auto-Ordnance, doing a small, tidy business, sold more than 6,000 Thompsons for a gross of $1,330,000. In 1928, however, death came to Thomas Fortune Ryan. Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. became executor, Elder Statesman Elihu Root the lawyer, of the $135,000,000 Ryan estate. In kindly Pacifist Root's scheme of things, the sale of man-killers had no place. Quietly he put Auto-Ordnance on the shelf. The Thompsons, father and son, had done a good selling job, were on the way to making it better, but under...
Growth hormones have been discovered in plants. The major ones are "Auxin A," "Auxin B" and "Heteroauxin." Academic research on plant-growth hormones, mainly done within the past decade, has plowed its ground so well that commercial hormone preparations are now available to nurserymen to stimulate root growth in cuttings...
...took root in the U. S. and Canada long before Founder Williams died. Its American backers, beginning 50 years ago, did far more than those of any other nation to extend its work throughout the world. They also shifted its emphasis. Today, with some 1,900,000 members in 10,000 local associations in 60 lands, the "Y" is no longer exclusively evangelical or Christian; Jews may belong.* Most people now think of the Y. M. C. A. not as a religious organization but as a chain of semi-public young men's clubs, with gymnasiums and clean beds...
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root...