Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sheridan will root for Princeton. She'll attend the Harvard-Princeton game at Cambridge November 2. She'll be cheering in the Tiger ranks...
...Vista. But off the air Jim Jordan is everything Fibber is not. He is handy with tools, his garden produces and, on the side, he runs two lucrative, if Fibber-style, ventures. One is a factory making sandblasting equipment. The other is the Kansas City bottling plant of Hires Root Beer...
...Uncle" is the undergraduate monicker for Haverford presidents. Present uncle is genial, cricket-playing William Wistar ("Uncle Billy") Comfort, highbrowed classicist and devout Quaker, who can, with equal facility, trace a word to its Sanskrit root and a piece of undergraduate mischief to its only begetter. Haverford graduate (1894) and son of a graduate, in his 23-year presidency he has doubled the college's teaching staff and endowment ($4,500,000), kept the student body and intercollegiate athletics* down. Says he: ". . . The country needs an exhibit of quality, rather than quantity in education...
...second problem, incompetent cooking, is not so easily met. Partly it is inherent in the mass-production of meals. But nevertheless the Committee believes there is room for improvement in the cooking. The root of the trouble lies in inexperienced and inefficient cooks. As an example of this, it was pointed out by Mr. Stefani, himself an experienced cook, that the broccoli served in the Union is prepared by a man who has had no outside cooking training, and is cooked in such a way that about 50% of the flavor and food value is lost. There is reason...
...quality of the cooking did not so easily pass the Committee's scrutiny. In a comprehensive survey, the Committee found that certain vegetables are consistently returned to the kitchens uneaten, and stated that the root of the evil lies in poor choice of dishes "prepared with carelessness and incompetence...