Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...having more human liberty on this continent, not less. To this end he may wish to make radical changes in the political and economic structure of America. Like Thomas Jefferson, when he abolished primogeniture, a citizen of this republic may today wish to swing an axe against the root of privilege. But he will do so only that a greater number of citizens may be free with in large limits, free to carry the responsibilities as well as to enjoy the benefits of modern civilization. It is because we have come to realize the confusing complexities of modern industrial society...
...awarded to U.S. citizens were divided among 25 persons. Of these, one, Alexis Carrel (medicine), has returned to France. The first and second U.S. winners in science, Albert Abraham Michelson (physics) and Theodore Richards (chemistry), have died. Five U.S. winners of the peace prize have died: Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Woodrow Wilson, Frank Billings Kellogg, Jane Addams...
From the deck they could see the elegant carrier Wasp, 14,700 tons of striking power, at the root of a great tree of smoke. She sat there, awkward in profile, still a dowager among ships, but dedicated now to fire, not to aviation...
...control (see p. 18), the President's homecoming produced the ridiculous spectacle of new bitterness. It brought to the surface a fundamental conflict of temperament and methods, a conflict between Franklin Roosevelt and the men who share responsibility in the war effort, a conflict which lies at the root of their multifarious impatience with the effort itself...
Founded in October, 1941 to take, up the slack in undergraduate thinking which inevitably took root as the United States approached closer to World War II, the Council had as its aim to provoke serious thought and discussion about post-war problems and interest in international cooperation...