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Word: rootes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of the College community were under the impression that decent conduct was the only qualification determining which public places a man could enter and which he could not. The announced stand of the management of the Club 100 now means that the philosophy of public segregation has taken root at one point in Cambridge and must be opposed by students and other members of the community who view this philosophy as a denial of basic human dignities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Matter of Decency | 3/14/1947 | See Source »

...needs a swift kick in the pants. The cut [Schrodinger's formula] at the page-top tells all-a new message in words old but not outworn. The mathematician reads it thus: "Schrodinger bases his theory on Hamilton's Principle, using as Lagrangian the square root of the negative of the determinant of the Ricci tensor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...message of Calvinism to modern man is that he must repent from his idolatry, which is his greatest and root sin. His idolatry, in that he has made a God of himself and made a problem of the living God of the Scriptures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Calvinist Comeback? | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...Stonewall Jackson, an "indifferent and slouchy looking man" whom some thought "deranged," suddenly halts while on midday reconnaissance, dismounts, unbuckles his sword, goes to sleep with his head on the root of a tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: News from Virginia | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...Journalist Robert Root recently visited Mountain House, wrote his impressions for last week's Christian Century. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Confessions at Caux | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

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