Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less explicit was the statement issued by Robert K. Root, dean of the Princeton faculty, early in November. Expressing his college's eagerness at that time to revert to its prewar calendar, he said only that such a move would be taken as soon as the end of the Navy V-12 unit made conformity to a Navy schedule no longer necessary. Thus Yale is the only member of the big three to have released a concrete reconversion program...
Princeton's eventual plan, as outlined by Root, will be almost identical to that at Yale. Two 17 week terms will commence around the middle of September and will continue, with a two week Christmas and one week spring recess, until July...
...columnist colleague on the New York Herald Tribune, Pundit Walter Lippmann, tartly observed that the President's predilection for postponing world political decisions until after the war was the root of the trouble. Officially, the U.S. favors only democratically elected governments in liberated countries. This principle, said Mr. Lippmann, is "an excellent principle [but] totally irrelevant to the real problem" of setting up an interim government until the country is ready to hold elections...
...conservative document, by comparison with that of white-thatched, vigorous, 65-year-old Economist Sir William Beveridge, author of Britain's "cradle-to-grave" social-security plan. The white paper's policy, he wrote, "is not practical and it is not radical-does not go to the root of the matter. . . . Whether private ownership of means of production to be operated by others is a good economic device or not, it must be judged as a device. It is not an essential liberty in Britain, because it is not and never has been enjoyed by more than...
...Washington, D.C., the Anti-Cigarette Alliance was ecstatic. Hailing the cigaret shortage as a "golden opportunity" which it hoped would last until 1947, the Alliance offered a "simple" prescription to those who want to break themselves of the filthy habit: i) chew 5? worth of gentian root (or camomile blossoms) every time the craving strikes; 2) take ½ teaspoonful each of Rochelle salts and cream of tartar before breakfast; 3) cut out highly seasoned foods and stimulating drinks; 4) shun all smokers and smoke-filled rooms; 5) take Turkish baths; 6) think of something else. But U.S. cigaret smokers, finding...