Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Money, although sometimes the root of all evil, is not the root of industry as far as College undergraduates are concerned, a survey of annual prize competitions totaling $13,000 disclosed yesterday...
...because there is always the ideal possibility that faith might purge anxiety of the tendency toward sin. The ideal possibility is that faith in God's love would overcome all immediate insecurities of nature and history. Hence Christian orthodoxy has consistently defined unbelief as the root of sin. Anxiety is the state of temptation-that anxiety which Kierkegaard called "the dizziness of freedom...
...first two chukkers, 18 to 0, while in the last two the score was much closer, 5 to 4. "Indoor polo is a higher scoring game than outdoor," players point out. An inflated leather ball, about the size of a grapefruit, is used instead of the usual willow root variety, which is harder to drive. This means scoring...
...speech this week at New Haven, U.S. Steel's Board Chairman Irving S. Olds dismissed price-wage increases as a major cause of inflation. The real root of the disease, he said, was expansion of bank credit, and the cure was in deflating it. His point had merit, but his attitude, like almost every businessman's, was that the other fellow ought to have more self-control...
...Communists managed to elect one delegate out of 600. The strongest political party in Palestine--Mapai--is a labor party, but so is Mr. Bevin's. The Soviet attitude towards Zionism has always been hostile. After the revolution Zionism as a political movement in the Soviet Union was destroyed root and branch. Hebrew is a banned language in Russia. Zionist leaders were imprisoned when the Russians took over Poland during the war. The Kremlin has consistently denounced Zionism, ironically enough as the "tool of British imperialism." Jewish refugees who have been offered citizenship in the Soviet Union have consistently refused...