Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that 18 sometimes turns up in connection with various noncancerous conditions, such as high blood pressure. But Dobriner & Rhoads found that in at least one case, 18 appeared some months before cancer developed. This suggested that the strange endocrine substance might have something to do with the very root of the mystery: cancer's cause...
...Hint from Medicine Men. Meanwhile, the chemical war against cancer took a strange turn. Scientists are now experimenting with an ancient remedy well known to patent-medicine makers: the mandrake, or Mayapple root. For centuries, men have regarded the mandrake with awe. Old Testament writers mentioned it with respect as a fertility symbol (Rachel purchased some from Leah at the price of Jacob's spending the night in Leah's tent). Medieval men, certain that there was something odd about mandrake, believed that it would shriek in Gothic agony when pulled out of the ground...
...anything will prevent war with Russia, it is the Truman Doctrine. But if war does come, it will be the work of you radicals Who never get at the root of anything. R. Bruce Friedman...
Damned at once by the Hitlerites as Bolshevist, by the Russians as bourgeois, and by critics in the United States as a lunatic advocate of soulless mechanization, Walter Gropius is today nevertheless the humbly proud Papa of a New Architecture which has tenaciously taken root to challenge traditionalist patterns. A self-exile from Nazi Germany, he trooped to this country with the giant company of expatriate European intellectuals ten years ago and now heads the Department of Architecture. In 1947 only Frank Lloyd Wright and possibly France's Le Corbusier rank ahead of him in the general esteem...
Back at the root of Network history is a man named Kenneth Richter, who tried to found a station in December of 1939. After floundering around without funds or University approval for several months, he went to the Crimson, interested President Spencer Klaw '41 in the project, and then vanished mysteriously from recorded history. The daily was interested in fathering the Network chiefly to keep possible advertising and news gathering competition in hand...