Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When we investigate biological processes, we find at the root electricity. All pathology is essentially variations in physiology. Many processes formerly considered as chemical are now revealed as electric phenomena. In essence there is very little difference between chemical and physical medicine...
Long ago the idea took root that Earth's face is squeezed and wrinkled by the contraction of cooling, but this is no longer regarded as the sole cause of unrest. A half-century ago. Dr. Watts recalled, Suess of Austria realized from geological evidence that the sea had washed back & forth on the continents in great longtime pulses, but he could not explain the underlying mechanism. After radioactivity was discovered, Joly of England and others hit on the concept of thermal pulsation: radioactivity in the solid, or nearly solid, sub-crust of Earth causes heat to be stored...
Witchcraft. The author starts on the premise that all savages are metaphysicians. At the root of their outlook is the fact that they have almost no knowledge of natural laws and almost no conception of cause & effect. They do not know why people get sick and die, why crops fail, why there are droughts or rains, why arrows miss their mark or why hunters are mangled by beasts. Therefore they ascribe every mishap to the action of sorcerers, or of enemies practicing everyday magic, or of invisible influences about whose nature they speculate little but which they feel around them...
...Georgia's property tax 20%, cut her automobile license fee to $3. On the issue of Georgia's Highway Department, Georgia's saving policy and the New Deal's spending policy collided head on. But another issue, smaller and more potent, was also at the root of the matter...
Comrade Stalin, an Oriental who has taken root behind the Kremlin walls as secretively as any tsar, promptly chose the third alternative and gave it the force of law by his potent fiat. The present Moscow of 3,500,000 Russians squashed into 70 square miles will be expanded, Stalin decreed, into a Moscow of 5,000,000 in 230 square miles. Most of this vast reconstruction was ordered rushed to completion within three years, but seven more years are allotted to finish up and smooth out New Moscow's inevitable kinks...