Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plant is the amazing welwitschia (Welwitschia mirabilis). The only member of its genus, it lives to be 100, grows a radish-like root four feet in diameter, puts out two trailing ten-foot leaves. It is found only in two remote little districts in Britain's Southwest Africa...
...Haven, Conn,; John W. Prenties '93, New York, N. Y.; Eliot Wadsworth '93, Boston, Mass,; Dwight F. Davis '00, St. Louis Mo., and Tallahane, Fla.; William R. Munro G '01, Pasadnes, Calif.; Samuel H. Wolcott '92, Boston, Mass.; Ogden L. Mills '95, New York, N. Y.; Eliot Root, Jr. 1 '06, New York, N. Y. ; Eliot C. Culler '09, Boston, Mass.; Joseph P. Kennedy '12, New York, N. Y.; Donald K. David '09, New York...
...fact that there is a unity to all knowledge and that any isolated branch of knowledge. is of insignificant consequence by itself as contrasted with the importance which it has in relation to other branches of knowledge. The feet that the words "wholeness" and "holiness" spring from the same root is not without an implication to which far more importance could be attached advantageously than is attached in the modern college...
...Memphis, Tenn. one night last month, Brenton Root, 32, contract investigator for a wholesale house, went to a hotel dance with some friends and his pretty wife, Daisy, 30. There the Roots, who had been living apart for six weeks, got into a quarrel because Mrs. Root resented her husband's attentions to a cigaret girl named Lucille Underwood. Daisy Root returned to her home, where she lived with her 4-year-old son. An hour later, pistol in hand, she entered Brenton Root's ome, awakened him, said, "Look at me, darling," shot him dead...
...most newspaper readers, it might have remained just one more killing in the city with one of the nation's highest homicide rates (TIME, May 28, 1934), but for the fact that Brenton Root was the son of a respected Episcopal clergyman-Rev. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Root, rector of St. Simon's Church in Chicago, onetime dean of the Cathedral in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Dr. Root calmly announced he forgave his daughter-in-law for killing his son. Last week he publicly interpolated his feelings in a sermon on forgiveness. While his wife was visiting Daughter...