Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constantly that he seems naked without a cigar, kept out of the limelight as usual. Unobtrusive, sharp-faced, medium-tall, grey-haired, he has been in the U.S. foreign service for 35 of his 54 years. When he was 19, a State Department clerk at $900 a year, Elihu Root had just become Secretary of State, John Hay's Open Door in China was a reality, and the Russo-Japanese war had made Japan a world power. When young Gauss became deputy consul general at Shanghai in 1907, Teddy Roosevelt was sending the U.S. Fleet round the world...
...shows how each tangled acre of jungle can be dissected into hundreds of distinct "niches," which vary-from treetop to root, from tree to tree-in temperature, humidity, vegetation, sunlight. Every niche has its animals, every animal its niche. Thus, for example, "If you know the distribution of either the forest, the malaria, or the mosquito alone, you will be able to predict the range and incidence of the other two. In fact, this applies . . . to any animals, plants, diseases, and so forth...
...Wendell Willkie took a job with a law firm (see p. 77), Oren Root Jr., 29, organizer of last year's Willkie Clubs, left a seven-week-old job as junior member of the Wall Street law firm of Hatch, McLean & Root, reported for duty as aide to the Navy Purchasing Officer in Manhattan...
Fungi (with the algae which do have chlorophyll) are the earth's oldest and most primitive plants, lacking root, stems and leaves. Fungi also lack the power of green plants to make food out of sunlight, carbon dioxide and water, and must therefore live off organic matter. So there are two types of fungi: 1) parasites, which feed on living plants and animals; 2) saprophytes, which feed on dead organisms. Pleasant are some fungi, such as the mushrooms (commercially grown on horse manure) which decorate steaks. Valuable are others, like the bacteria which decompose dead organisms, fix nitrogen...
Died. Emory Roy Buckner, 63, member of the potent Manhattan law firm of Root, Clark, Buckner & Ballantine, one of the great trial lawyers of his time, who as U. S. District Attorney for southern New York during Prohibition years gained fame by padlocking Manhattan speakeasies, prosecuting former Attorney General Harry (Teapot Dome) Daugherty, sending Earl (Vanities) Carroll to Atlanta for giving false testimony to a Federal grand jury about publicly tubbing a show girl in champagne; after brief illness; in Manhattan...