Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They rigged up a Quartier Latin of wall board and in one of the concessions they established a life class model, better looking than most, who supplied an eyeful to non-professional guests at $1 a head. The venture was such a success that famed John Wellborn Root and other architects got Merchant George Lytton and others to put up a guarantee fund with which to build the $250,000 Streets of Paris on the World's Fair's Midway. A good part of the U. S. public has now heard about the Streets of Paris. Some...
...moment a catapillar's struggle with an ant amused her. Bending over the pool, Niobe combed out her long black hair and admired her small tan shoulders. She had even twisted a garland of lacy white flowers which now lay crumpled in the grass. She pulled out a sweet root to nibble and dabbled her toes in the water, fretting about Dion and why he had gone away...
Empire, Not until it turned into the 20th Century did the U. S. magazine business start swelling to mammoth proportions. At the root of that amazing growth was Cyrus Curtis who developed advertising as a sort of huge hydro-electric system to drive the wheels of the publishing business. What Henry Ford did for automobiles, Cyrus Curtis did for magazines- and they both waxed very, very rich. Today the House of Curtis towers so high above all others that there is no room for comparison...
Dentist George Clarence Dreher of Newark, N. J. pondered the use of maggots for cleaning the root canal completely of dead pulp, ordinarily a difficult procedure. Too nice to experiment in a patient's mouth, Dentist Dreher got a freshly-pulled decayed1 front tooth-he reported last week in Dental Survey-and put a fat maggot to work on the decay. The maggot was too fat to get into the root canal...
...Roosevelt's abandonment of the gold standard and steps to expand credit were absolutely necessary. The plans to which our Government is now committed, for arresting the deflation and bringing about some rise in prices, and for lowering trade barriers, are sound and wise and go to the root of the matter...