Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blood on the leaves and blood at the root...
Many Roman Catholics believe that the root of modern social unrest is the separation of city people, especially industrial workers, from the soil. In Ohio last week a Catholic Rural Life Bureau director was engaged in a small back-to-the-land experiment to bring them together. The experimenter: Father Joseph V. Urbain, pastor of Queen of Peace Church, Millville (30 miles north of Cincinnati; population...
...Blue Network, the N. W. Ayer ad agency and Hires Root Beer finally got their war heroes straightened out last week. For three weeks a new Blue show called Heidt Time for Hires (Mon., 7 p.m., E.W.T.) has featured honorably discharged servicemen who aired their war records, said what they would like to work at and where. They were supposed to get job offers before the show ended. They did. The trouble was that at first nobody took pains to investigate the applicants thoroughly...
...Corps, said he had been honorably discharged for an injury suffered while transporting boxes. "Henry offered his life to his country," boomed the professionally cheerful voice of Bandmaster Horace Heidt, "what will the country offer Henry?" While awaiting the answer, someone babbled "There's family cheer in Hires Root Beer" and the band played You Are My Sunshine. There was just one thing wrong with Henry's story: he had gotten his injury by tumbling off a boxcar while watching a crap game...
...done to the English language since Jamestown was settled in 1607. He brought with "him thousands of cards representing American entries in the OED. These became the basis of the DAE. Sir William's co-editor since 1936 has been Chicago's lanky Chaucerian Professor James Root Hulbert. Many U.S. experts lent their advice, and volunteers supplied thousands of samples of early U.S. usages...