Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wounds surgeons often resort to skin grafts, which occasionally do not take, which usually look ugly. Last week the University of Cincinnati announced perfection of a substitute technique. Dr. Louis George Hermann, assistant professor of surgery, sprinkles flakes of chopped skin upon raw wounds. The skin cells take root, seedlike, in the moist raw surface, absorb nutriment, proliferate. In a short time the islands of growing skin touch each other, merge and make a sightly new skin. Dr. Hermann finds that which way the skin flakes fall does not matter. Like plant seeds they orient themselves, grow outward from their...
...turn back the subtle inroads of this form of philistinism only the sped of suggestion which awakens broader interests in needed. The plan of throwing students together in Houses is being tried, but it would seem that the difficulty might be attacked much nearer its root in the system of courses. If, for example, Professor Whitehead gave a lecture to the Freshmen who take Mathematics A, explaining the significance of mathematics in Philosophy, the mental horizon of all the intelligent students in the course would be appreciably widened. The same scheme, modified for various fields, would work successfully in almost...
...plan has already been tried out to a limited extent in other colleges, notably at Princeton where Fritz Crisler was appointed coach of basketball as well as football, and at Yale, where Reginald Root, a member of the faculty, has been head football coach...
...root of the matter is the fact that the Class Officers in question have no function save their own elevation to importance. It is difficult to arouse interest in the election of figureheads for the Red Book. Time and again these arguments have been presented to the Student Council, and have been coupled to more significant demands for the economy which could be effected by the abolition of lower class officers. The Student Council is impervious; there is, of course, the tradition...
...Supreme Court with his supporters to forestall legal hitches. When the President's pretty young secretary, inadvertently visiting relatives in Jersey City, is horribly wounded by gunmen, he adroitly capitalizes the red-hot indignation of her fiancé by making him chief of a federalized police force to root out crime and racketeering. Chicago becomes the scene of siege operations as the Federal "Green Jackets" bomb under-worldlings out of their fortified lairs. Meanwhile Washington has superseded State authority by its power of the purse, and cities are governed by Federal appointees...