Word: rooted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Institute announced plans for the first of three major additions which will eventually make the Institute a huge quadrangle of art between Michigan Avenue and the Outer Drive. No Chicago wiseacre was surprised to learn that the winner of the design competition was the Chicago architectural firm of Holabird & Root...
...post (Schofield Barracks: 30,000 men). For the asking they would gladly take him fishing for the great a'u (swordfish) in Kona waters, drive him through Hawaii's fern forests, show him sugar-cane fields, pineapple plantations, the leper colony, crown him with leis, feed him poi (taro root paste), or entertain him at a native feast (luau) with straw-skirt ballet...
...Chicago Cubs have been more troublesome than the Cardinals. Early in June Manager Grimm and Shortstop Jurges were fined $50 and $25 respectively for misbehaving. A few days later Jurges, Root, English and W. Herman were all ejected from the same game. Another day English was fined...
...between order and chaos. . . ." Democracy is in retreat, but democracy as the world has known it has been a middle-class laissez-faire system whose results "curiously resemble a dictatorship of the owning class. ... It is rather a prize to be won than a possession to be defended." The root of economic disorder, says Author Brailsford. is the institution of property. A planned capitalism is impossible, "a contradiction in terms." If the capitalist world is not to end in fire in some near tomorrow, then some industries, all banks must be nationalized, armament firms put under an international authority...
Snapped Dean Root, famed English professor: "Split infinitives and dangling participles are not the greatest sins. Some of them don't know how to write a sentence even good enough to have a split infinitive...