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Word: rootes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loving wife Carole Lombard, went dimple-chinned, he-mannered Clark Gable, 39, to find out what was wrong with a broad but aching Gable shoulder. "Hurry up," groused he at photographers, "I'm not feeling so well." Next day dental surgeons found what they claimed was the root of Actor Gable's ills, yanked an infected molar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 13, 1941 | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...encourage the exercise of good citizenship by taking part in local political affairs." 2) "To promote a better understanding of current political questions. . . ."3) "To encourage competent men and women . . . to seek public office through the machinery of our two-party system." Said Original Willkie Booster Oren Root: "Our position is the same [as before the election] in that there are certain fundamental principles of government and of life in which we believe just as much today as we did two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: New Force? | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...conceded him a top ranking among Swedish artists. It was not until 1926, when curious Londoners gathered together a large Milles exhibition at the Tate Gallery, that Carl Milles became known to the outside world as Sweden's No. 1 sculptor. Following year Chicago's Architects Holabird & Root brought him to the U. S. to do a fountain for their Michigan Square Building in Chicago. Then Detroit's Philanthropist George Booth, who was trying to found an ideal art colony at nearby Cranbrook, invited Milles to teach sculpture there. Since then Milles has lived at Cranbrook, dividing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Giants in Baltimore | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...receivers, recorders, direction finders and an FM transmitter with which to talk to one another. Favorite parking place sought by the mobile units is a cemetery, where there are no lights, telephones or overhead wires to interfere with monitoring work. Often field inspectors sleuth around for days before they root out the ethereal blind pig they are after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Monitors | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...books for the libraries will be purchased by the Student Council, and donated to the University. The collections will be located, under present plans, in the libraries of the seven Houses, the Union, Dudley Hall, the Root Room of the Law School Library, the Biological Laboratory Common Room, and the Farnsworth Reading Room in the Widener Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT COUNCIL TO DONATE 12 SPECIAL "WAR LIBRARIES" | 11/20/1940 | See Source »

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