Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undaunted by the heavy weather, ex-President Herbert Hoover held to his intention to attend Saturday's game as the guest of President Conant, and braved the elements to help root the Crimson to a victory...
...Well," he breathed a sigh, "it is wonderful to have you two to entertain for the weekend." He prayed that he had struck the note of sarcasm off-key. "I suppose you're both keyed up for the game and ready to burst your lungs rooting for Harvard." Dimly he remembered hearing his mother say that Uncle Henry graduated from Harvard in 1897; he also thought that something similar had once been said about Cousin Arthur. So the explosion from Cousin Arthur left him gasping. "Hmph!" he lit the fuse. "For a Yale man to root for Harvard would...
...alls and listen only to the appeals of practicality and amusement that come from social historians. Once Moses Coit Tyler wrote: "No one who would penetrate to the core of early American literature, and would read in it the secret history of the people in whose minds it took root..., may by any means turn away, in lofty literary scorn, from the almanac--most despised, most prolific, most indispensable of books, which every man uses, and no man praises; the very quack, clown, pack-horse, and pariah of modern literature, yet the one universal book of modern literature...
...years that, although he rode into office on the wave of a reform movement combined with a split in the Democratic ticket, it now appears that the strongest combine of bosses, Far- of the nation, Flynn of the Bronx Democracy, and the Tammany Tiger will not be able to root him out of office with their compromise candidate for mayor, Jeremiah Mahoney...
...materials and tools of architecture in the past. This is the eclectic tradition fostered for years by the great Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Many architects consider this tradition inadequate because, while not necessarily inimical to modern developments it is "paper architecture" which fails to get at the root of modern building needs...