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Word: rootes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walter M. Robinson 3L, president of the Law School's Legal Aid Bureau, will lead off the attack on the question when he steps to the microphone at 3:30 o'clock Monday afternoon to give his answer to the query, "Is Money the Root of the Evil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor, Student Air Problems of Marriage | 5/12/1948 | See Source »

Whatever adults-and sponsors-may think of such carryings-on, Hawthorne and his peculiar banana-split lingo have become the rage of Southern California's younger set. Most popular root word is "hogan" (example: "I was driving my carahogan in from Pasadena-hogan so I could get a hoganburger"). The young folks also overwork Hawthorne's favorite adjectives: keen, peachy-keen, and oh-so-peachy-keen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Peachy-Keen | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

German Club--Lily Root '50, president; Joan Stolper '50, vice president; Marie Fleming '50, secretary; Lois Daniels '49; treasurer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Club Elections for 1948-49 | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

Rather than continuing, therefore, on the piecemeal method of improvement as the criticisms pick out one item on the menu after another, a professional investigation and recommendations should be sought to attack the problem at its root: the lack of efficiency in preparing and serving meals in the so-called temporary cafeteria style...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dining Hall Dilemma | 5/5/1948 | See Source »

Southern trees bear a strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root. Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Life | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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