Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daphne Skouras, daughter of 20th Century-Fox Chief Spyros Skouras, by her marriage to Oren Root Jr., socialite lawyer who organized the Willkie Clubs...
Rebecca West rather enjoys it. For with all her warmth of heart and incandescence of mind, she is seldom averse to a good brawl. She listens, calmly poised for pouncing, when she is called a Fascist, a Communist, an anti-Semite, though she is none of those things. The root of the misunderstanding is that in a world racked by partisan passion, which more & more insists on viewing men in black & white, as caricatures of good or evil, she finds them blends of both. Her view asserts the faith that what distinguishes men, not so much from the brutes...
...rules for distribution hope to produce a class of capable, liberally educated graduates by infusing a wide area of general knowledge into undergraduate, programs. Poorly advised students often choose their distribution from a large group of specialized courses designed primarily for concentrators. These men root through introductions, to the Astronomy of the Solar System, Elementary Anthropology, or the Tacties and Techniques of Field Artillery with little idea that distribution was designed to dispense a knowledge of the important principles in modern society. In the area of Social Sciences, many students again pick large lecture courses that offer an introduction...
Associate Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and President Conant delivered keynote speeches at Saturday afternoon's dedication of the new Law School Guide Pantaleoni Memorial in the Elihu Root Room of Langdell Hall...
TIME is correct, because Indian summer never comes until November. My authorities are many, but they all seem to root back to the first mention of Indian summer in poetry in the poem October's Address by Philip Freneau (1752-1832), published in a collection of his poems...