Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agriculture, Mr. Christensen says that root crops do well because of the long days, but shipping costs preclude development of an outside market; and in his day, not even Alaskans could be persuaded to eat the soggy Alaskan potato. What with the hardships of clearing the land, the short summer season, the extremely cold winters, the plague of mosquitoes and other insects, Mr. Christensen considers the colonists' prospects so glum that the Government will be obliged to support them and eventually return them to the States...
...Grass Root" Meetings...
Colonel Roosevelt approves heartily of the many "Grass Root" meetings to determine Republican policy, at which the delegates will be all the small-town and county leaders; the groups go to the very "grass roots" of the party to revitalize it. The meeting in Boston last night was the first of these, and it will be followed by others in the Midwest, Pacific Coast, and other sections...
...measure. When her festivals were 27 years old the great Lillian Nordica was a soloist and in Lindsborg that occasion has become legendary. The enchanted choristers pulled her carriage through the streets, received in return roses from her bouquet. One youth planted his bloom and it managed to take root, yielded for years the "Nordica rose." In Lindsborg Nordica roses are pressed in memory books, in massive family Bibles. In Manhattan Lillian Nordica seemed all but forgotten last week when many of her most valuable household possessions were sold at public auction for less than...
...Medley was won by Chicago's Lake Shore A. C. relay team in record time. N. Y. A. C.'s Leonard Spence retained his titles at 220-yd. breast stroke and 300-yd. medley. Diving titles went to Miami's Elbert Root (low-board), Detroit's Dick Degener (high-board...