Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eight years later, when Sullivan was world's champion, Muldoon trained him at his farm in Belfast, N. Y., curbed his drinking with a baseball bat. In 1900 Muldoon opened his famed Hygienic Institute at Purchase, N Y., where many a celebrity, including Theodore Roosevelt, Chauncey Depew, Elihu Root and Elbert Hubbard, went to be reconditioned. His chief gifts to athletics were the medicine ball and the shower bath. He and Gene Tunney annually exchanged telegrams on their mutual birthday...
...deans resigned, as is customary with a change of presidents. All were reappointed, one moved up. Faculty Dean Eisenhart, able mathematician, becomes dean of the Graduate School to succeed Dr. Augustus Trowbridge who resigned because of ill health. Successor as dean of the faculty is urbane, witty Robert Kilburn Root, English department chairman...
...accustomed, and scratch for a living? There is not one scintilla of reasonable argument dictating that a divorced man should support some woman he is no longer living with. Only sentimentality and maudlin legal precedent are responsible for this unnatural, stupid state of affairs. Turn the parasites out to root for themselves...
...difficulties you might expect in a situation of this sort arise promptly: a Coast Guard officer shoots Kirk, who shoots the reporter who, when he gets out of the hospital, marries Julie. Far from the tenor of the book by Max Miller, from which it was adapted by Wells Root, I Cover the Waterfront is a sullen atmospheric melodrama, interesting except in banal sequences which show the reporter abusing his managing editor...
...there were last week more men on Owens-Illinois' payroll than at any time during the booming 1920's. Not content with what beer might hand him Mr. Levis has spread his net, Depression as he used Prohibition: to enlarge his sway. Last October he bought Root Glass Co. of Terre Haute, Ind. Last week he bought Hemingray Glass Co. of Muncie. Ind. and also O'Neill Machine Co. of Toledo, maker of glass blowing machinery, adding to Owens-Illinois' large and ancient holdings of glass machinery patents. Last week up & coming Mr. Levis also announced...