Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be near midnight by the time three tubs were full and ready for the morning after. Included in the preliminaries, was a trip to the woods for sassafras root and slippery elm bark for flavoring. Next morning an outdoor fire was made and the freshly scoured copper kettle swung into place. Cider on to boil, apples ready to add, and the bilin' was under way. Also ready was the long handle stirrer with a row of clean white corn husks tied through the row of holes in the end of the paddle. This was manipulated, all day long...
...Kellogg laid not the slightest imputation against Dr. Rhine's sincerity, but he implied that the "will-to-believe" can lead an honest scientist astray as well as a layman. The one thing that seemed certain last week was that, since the parapsychology question goes to the root of human mentality, it will go on attracting attention, Dr. Rhine will go on attracting adherents, and more skeptics will join Dr. Kellogg on the other side of the fence. And the mechanism of telepathy and clairvoyance, if they exist, remains to be explained in toto...
...explanations of the week ranged from a theory that the market crack was another 1906 "rich man's panic" to the notion that it was a "capital strike" against the New Deal, one fact became increasingly clear: whether or not pessimism over fall business prospects was at the root of the market's drop, the market's drop had certainly dragged down fall business prospects...
...price of rhubarb root (a cathartic) last week rose to 65? a lb., up almost 200% in the past three weeks. Ephedrine (a nasal astringent), which hay fever sufferers this month are using everywhere, similarly shot up 200% to $3 an ounce. Mandrake root, which Elizabethans considered a cure for sterility and druggists now use in physics, soared to $4.25 a lb. These convulsions in the minor Oriental drug trade last week were solely the effects of the war in China. Nor were they the only commercial effects in the U. S. To the confusion of economic isolationists...
Meanwhile tea. anise, antimony, Perilla oil and galangal root, all imported from the Orient, rose in price. So did tungsten. Some 60% of this rare, whitish-grey metal comes from China. Technically known as wolfram, tungsten has a higher melting point than any other known metal (6,000° F.), is used in electric lamp filaments, radio tubes and high-speed tool steel...