Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...here Mr. Baldwin snapped his fingers. "A curious feature," he continued, "is that at this moment in England we are reversing the process of Italy and Germany, and the petty efforts of the Fascists are making Communists. We will take jolly good care that neither of them will take root...
...reciprocal tariff treaties and recent moves toward currency stabilization had won back his vote. Of his Roosevelt criticism. Banker Warburg wrote: "I make no retractions." Of Republicans: "It is impossible for me to support an opposition which either will not or cannot recognize that economic nationalism lies at the root of our great difficulties...
...firearms department, wax dummies that come alive and slap policemen on the shoulder, pistol shots from a secret elevator, a kleptomaniac (Etienne Girardot), archery practice by a floorwalker, a couple of corpses and Ted Healy as a police sergeant, fumbling helplessly with a service revolver. At the root of it all are the activities of a ring of crooks who have been using the store as a cache for stolen goods. Best gag: the murderer's mob, coming to his rescue in police uniforms, set upon with pails and mops by a group of berserk scrubwomen whom they...
Founder Janson passed out of the picture early, being murdered in 1850 by a jealous husband named John Root. The colony's history thereafter paralleled that of most 19th century U. S. religious Utopias. Disease and crop failure due to unfamiliarity with the land killed off many. Next came a period of self-sufficiency and content, followed by dissatisfaction and dissolution. The colony's 10,857 communal acres were split...
Although Sir William spent the last eleven years at the University of Chicago on professorship to work on the Dictionary, returning to England only for the summers, most of the spadework was done by his colleague. Chicago Professor James Root Hulburt and small, Scottish George Watson, longtime subordinate on the Oxford Dictionary who followed Craigie to Chicago in 1926. Last week with the Dictionary well under way, Sir William had returned to his home at Watlington, England, where he will probably stay to work on a new Dictionary of Scottish Tongues...