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Word: rootes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spirit which enables a people to bear arms? Once this spirit dominates a people, the will finds a thousand ways, each of which ends with arms!" For those who could not find this spirit, or found it repellent, Americans in their homelier days posed the alternatives in plain English: Root...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Morale | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...ahead to lengthen the shopping season before Christmas; the expected boon to trade had not materialized; the changed date had been an experiment and the experiment had not worked. But at this point, said Mr. Sullivan, "there was encountered an often-ignored condition, the tendency of mistakes to take root and become permanent. Manufacturers of calendars print their wares a year ahead. Such of them as are not obstinately hostile to innovation had printed Mr. Roosevelt's date for Thanksgiving in their calendars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: President Admits Mistake | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...Polly Palmer, WheatonWilliam C. Palson Priscilla Tapley, SmithWillard Platt Patricia Elliot, WellesleyBroaddus Robinson Patricia Drew, BeaverO. Glenn Saxon, Jr. Bobsie Deming, The Day SchoolErwin H. Schell Alice Minot, CambridgeRichard D. Solo Helen Salters, BrooklineEdward B. Stevens Andy Johnson, Miss Wheeler'sPeter Gram Swing Patricia Lee, SmithFenton Taylor, Jr. Eleanor Root, New YorkAndrew W. Welch, Jr. Barbara Kelly, EmmanuelWELD HALLHenry Applebach Louise StuartElibu H. Berman Muriel Goldman, Hartford, Conn.Frederic H. Bird Ann Tyrrell, Colby Junior CollegeJerry M. Brown Vurginia Buchser, Fort Monroe, Va.Richard L. Davies Barbara Jane Cook, WellesleyThomas M. Griffin Ann Roberts, Concord AcademyGrover C. Hansen Jeanne Pankow, WellesleyJames...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 300 COUPLES TO ATTEND JUBILEE | 5/23/1941 | See Source »

Nearly one hundred scholars will participate in the talks and round table discussions, which will be open to all interested in culture and contemporary thought. Other representative addresses include: "Alexander Pope" by Dean Robert K. Root of Princeton; "The Church and Drama" by Karl Young of Yale; "Blueprint for American Literary History" by Robert E. Spiller of Swarthore; "The Crusades" by John L. Monte of Pennsylvania; "Structure in Liquids" by G. E. F. Lundell, Chief, Chemistry Division National Bureau of Standards; "Labor Law" by the Hon. Robert B. Watts, General Counsel National labor Relations Board; "One Hundred Years of Catalysis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brinton, Ford, Rand To Speak At Fordham | 5/16/1941 | See Source »

Engineers of the German Union for Colonial Technique are preparing a 50-year plan for Africa "on a scientific basis and, for the time being, without regard to the political constellation." Root ideas of the plan are those of Geophysicist Hermann Soergel of Munich. A conservation specialist, Herr Soergel points to the "tragic desiccation" of Africa caused by the fact that many rivers-such as the Orange, Cunene, Zambezi, Limpopo-once watered great interior basins, but have gradually gnawed through mountain ridges and now empty into the sea. Herr Soergel would rehydrate Africa by several giant schemes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Chimneys in the Jungle | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

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