Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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White Rock Mineral Springs Co. ("White Rock" water, gingerale, root beer, sarsaparilla, also "Still Rock" and "Kentucky Nip"): $1,229,000 as against...
...Times to explain that this testimonial was unbought. unsolicited. Senator Capper of Kansas and Novelist Arnold Bennett of England were two other testifiers whose good words the Times published lately. A dozen other celebrities scheduled to compliment the Times through its own pages include Charles Evans Hughes, Elihu Root, President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke College, President Henry Smith Pritchett of the Carnegie Foundation...
...Root, professor of English in Princeton University, heads the Committee on Fellowships and Grants, which will make the awards. Other members of the committee...
...weary as he was modest in asking New York City not to give him a public reception. Also, he was in a hurry to get back to his private life. His son Charles was getting married next day in Cleveland.* He was due after that at Elihu Root's college, Hamilton, to receive an honorary degree. From there he wanted to go and rest at Van Hornesville, which is still his home town in a very real sense. He was born there the day the late great Theodore Roosevelt was having his 16th birthday party, Oct. 27, 1874. Everyone...