Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Except for the limited life of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, a brilliant nook run by high-brow Harvardians from 1928 to 1932, the first general awakening began four years ago. A drifting spore from Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art took root in Boston as an "affiliate," was watered by about 50 members, made $1,500 on a Modern Arts Ball (now annual and famous as the only dance at which Boston society stays up until dawn). By 1937 there were 300 members. Two months ago, with 800 paying members, Boston's offshoot became a lusty...
Example: there was a time, in the his tory of mathematics, when certain kinds of irrational and imaginary numbers were not "respectable." The ancient Greeks were shocked and embarrassed by such a number as the square root of two. Now these numbers are indispensable tools of science - just as political tenets which are not "respectable" today may be accepted as a matter of course tomorrow...
Nature put soft tufts of fibre on cotton seeds so that the wind would carry them away from the plant to take root. Man came to attach more importance to the fibre than to the seeds, cultivated cotton for more fibre. The U. S. now raises too much cotton lint, not enough cottonseed.* But there is no economic reason for not raising cotton as a seed crop, since cottonseed oil makes oleomargarine, shortening, soap, and the cottonseed cake which remains after the oil is squeezed out makes good fodder for cattle...
...Messinger of Houghton, Mich, told members of the Chicago Dental Society that he had streamlined the ancient practice of tooth replacement and that now it did work. First he extracts an abscessed tooth, and removes the jaw abscess. Then he scrapes out all the pulp in the root canal of the tooth, sterilizes it, and fills the shell with guttapercha. After he re-sterilizes it, he pushes the tooth back in its socket with his thumb. A gold frame is clamped on the tooth to hold it in place. After four weeks, said Dr. Messinger, the frame can be removed...
Died. Jesse Root Grant, 80, nephew of President Ulysses S. Grant; of exposure and starvation; in Chicago...