Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meditations. The Besant Society believes that children born on the Pacific Coast, Canada and Australia (or other fresh, unexhausted lands) are creatures of a new, sixth race, capable of seeing ethereal spirits, possessed of clairvoyance. All other people living are said to derive from the fifth, or Arian root race. Another Besant belief: California is highly electrical, hence occult manifestations are frequent. Great is the hope of the Society that Krotona will prove a breeding place of strapping, golden children...
Jamaica ginger, which almost all of the stricken confessed drinking, has been mentioned as a cause. Jamaica ginger is an infusion of the peeled and ground roots of he ginger plant in alcohol. In medicine it s used internally to remove gas on the stomach. Many women use the candied root or the extract to soothe their periodic griping. Because Jamaica ginger gives a lot feeling to the stomach and because it contains alcohol it is like lemon extract, favorite tipple of inland drinkers unable to buy normal imported alcoholic beverages. They call Jamaica ginger "jake...
...company to join the Gas system is New York Steam Corp., whose function is to furnish steam for heating and power purposes. The root of New York Steam Corp. was New York Steam Co.. founded in 1880. During the War, New York Steam Co. had fuel troubles, went bankrupt in 1921. Since its reorganization the corporation has been extremely successful. In 1922 its net earnings were only $615,000; for the year ending June 30, 1929 they came to over $2,700,000, up 21% from...
...mind there is a picture of America, anxious to maintain abroad its reputation for high moral tone, at the same time sneaking around the corner to have a cocktall. I feel as do many that the Eighteenth Amendment should be repealed as the root of the whole trouble. It is called a 'noble experiment', but a constitution should contain broad statements of general policy, not experiments...
...hinterland of idealism and as such is too heavily embellished with the burden of impracticality, but it has the further disadvantage of serving as a tonic for a faltering system which needs a panacea. In scratching the surface, the College Boards, Dr. Little's "humanitarism" scrapes clean of the root of the whole trouble...