Word: rooted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tutoring when the University muffs its end of the bargain. When some courses are poorly organized and others are poorly taught, when there is vastly too much reading for the average ability in still others, then outside tutoring is a necessary evil. Then it is a fruit, not a root. So says the majority opinion...
...succeed in future years, it must not continue to be predicated on an impossibly romantic basis. Harvard students an masse will not voluntarily swallow an American History pill, no matter how heavily coated with sugar. Nor is a compulsory course a solution, striking as it does at the root of a college system which has only one common requirement for all its graduates: that they be able to write and swim. The plan faces two alternatives. It may become incorporated in the curriculum as an informally taught course in American Civilization. Or it may remain strictly extra-curricular...
...knows the cause of facial neuralgia, but to relieve pain physicians some times inject alcohol into the tough, sinuous trigeminal (facial) nerve or sever its root. Neither of these treatments is satisfactory, however, for alcohol injections may give only transient relief, and a severed nerve may impart a slack, dead expression to one side of the face...
...week, remember good times when they had $12. They own a 1924 Dodge but can't afford to run it. Years ago, discouraged by debts and annual babies, John started drinking "like a hog in a bucket of slops." But when Sarah drank cotton-root tea to bring on a nearly fatal miscarriage, John was sobered. "God knows, Sarah," he said, "I love the brats but I'm worried about how to look atter them." Next time he took to drink, Sarah "suddenly took a notion that I could beat the stuffin...
...Elihu Root Room, which will serve as an informal reading room, was given to the University through donations by Henry L. Stimson, the Law School Association, and the class...