Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cancer Problem. A cancer is an abnormal growth which may occur anywhere in the body, which destroys adjoining normal tissue, and which may send portions of itself to take root and grow in distant vital organs...
...which reminds me that some few years ago my brother Clem got ahold of a small piece of bamboo root and made the tragic mistake of planting it in the back yard of our home in Tifton...
...past few years killing the umpire at every close play has taken root because of the fear of bias in umpires chosen only by the home team. If visitors at Harvard crab decisions made by Harvard umpires, the Harvard bench must rise to protect its interests. At games away, on the other hand, the team must ride the officials in order to get a fair deal. Thus, by a subtly growing process, the bench turns into a concentration camp of hatred, and the professional spirit,--that the game must be won by whatever hook or crook comes in handy,--tends...
...Arbitration Journal, a quarterly devoted to solidifying and expanding the out-of-court sphere of law. Honorary editor of the Journal is famed onetime (1921-28) World Court Justice John Bassett Moore. Active editorial direction is in the hands of the A. A. A.'s perennial president, Lucius Root Eastman, 62, president of The Hills Brothers Co., big Manhattan importers and manufacturers (Dromedary Dates, grapefruit juice, pimentos), and a board including Educator Isaiah Bowman and President Thomas J. Watson of International Business Machines Corp...
Died. Lawyer Elihu Root, 91, Republican Elder Statesman; in Manhattan...