Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposition to such outlandish art first took root in the Midwest. A small group of native painters began to offer direct representation in place of introspective abstractions. To them what could be seen in their own land?streets, fields, shipyards, factories and those who people such places?became more important than what could be felt about far off places. From Missouri, from Kansas, from Ohio, from Iowa, came men whose work was destined to turn the tide of artistic taste in the U. S. Of these earthy Midwesterners none represents the objectivity and purpose of their school more clearly than...
...sooner had Stowaway Wainwright been turned over to his grandmother than police caught another boy slipping down the gangplank, found that he was William L. Hires, 16, nephew of Philadelphia's Charles E. Hires Jr. (Hires Root Beer). Stowaway Hires had made the round trip...
...years later Trader Foster donated 40 acres and built a log courthouse for a townsite on Wildcat Creek. The village took the name of Kokomo from an Indian who frequented the settlement. History sometimes describes Indian Kokomo as an honorable and courageous chief, sometimes as a common coon-hunting, root-digging, rum-loving, shiftless, abusive no-account...
Without consulting President Sproul, who is charged with full responsibility for University of California student discipline. Provost Moore took mighty measures to root out the plague. From the University for one year he suspended five student leaders. Four were members of student council: John Burnside, president; Sidney Zsagri, forensic chairman; Thomas Lambert, men's board chairman; Mendel Lieberman, scholarship chairman. Fifth was Celeste Strack, Phi Beta Kappa and champion debater. The four councilmen, charged the Provost had been "using their offices to destroy the University by handing it over to an organized group of Communists...
Fraternity men throughout the land had their eyes on Yale last week. There, where the college fraternity system took early root, it seemed about to die. First, Alpha Delta Phi said it would pledge no new members this year and Alpha Delts said privately they would probably close their house, disband the chapter. Few days later Psi Upsilon said it was turning in its national charter, to become a local, nonsecret club...