Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elihu Root called at the White House to pay his respects, and stayed a long time with the President. When he came out reporters "pumped" but he only smiled wanly in response. He answered only one question, "Will the Volstead Act be modified?" remarking sagely: "Time will tell...
...Significance. Since a root cause of war from which most surface causes spring is admittedly the pressure of increasing population, it is to the advantage of all nations to ease and curb this pressure wisely, lest haphazard blood-letting continue.* But in Rome, Minister of Interior Luigi Federzoni cried last week...
...commonplaces of the action. Everything happens according to the good, old, established school of countless colorless comedies, and the spectator is tempted to whisper "I told you so," at every well-known incident. If ever there was a man who likes to get back to the root of things, Mr. Maltby has shown himself to be such when looked upon in the light of the jokes resurrected from their honored, and, I had hoped, forgotten graves...
...membranes of the brain, with brain matter and cerebrospinal fluid? No. This bump was too firm. Meningocele, a tumor containing the meninges of the brain and spinal fluid? Probably not, because a meningocele usually protrudes through an unossified part of the skull, usually at the back, sometimes at the root of the nose...
...inhabitants, varying in number according to the season. The main products are milk and wise cracks of the vintage of the gay nineties. The milk is very good. The most original feature of the landscape is the cemetery in which lie those two sires of even wortheir stock, Mr. Root and Mr. Beer--lie so near in fact that the names on their granite shafts make sense when read from left to right as one crosses the hill. Here I once wandered with an old lady of uncertain step and wavering voice who was later proved the village lunatic...