Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...group of those favoring the adoption of the metric system is wide and notable. It includes among scientists Thomas A. Edison, Luther Burbank and Glenn H. Curtiss. It includes Leonard Wood and Admiral Sims. It includes Elihu Root, John Barton Payne, Newton D. Baker and William G. McAdoo. It included John Hays Hammond and Samuel Vauclain. It includes Arthur Brisbane and Dr. Frank Crane, and includes General Pershing, who saw the A. E. F. acquire the use of it in France and found it both convenient and not too hard to learn. Its proponents argue for it that no country...
...gentleman addressed was Charles F. Ruggles, timber and salt man of Manistee, Mich. The reason he was addressed, and Lawyer Elihu Root of Manhattan wrote a letter similar to Judge Taft's, was that both writers had read a declaration of the officers and directors of the American Judicature Society in which it was revealed that Mr. Ruggles was that society's conceiver, founder and patron...
...waterlilies." The season previous his play, Salome, had been refused a license. In a few months he was to publish The Sphinx, a poetic catalog of "amours frequent and fine," dedicated to one Marcel Schwob. He had played and acted many variations upon his epigram, "Industry is the root of all ugliness." The next year, 1895, he was to be branded publicly and sent to prison for perverted practices...
...social thinking of America needs to root itself in roulettes. If the experiences which The Nation's contestants have undergone were common to great numbers of college undergraduates it would not be too much to expect a virtual revolution in their political and economic creeds. A summer in a canning factory can cure for a lifetime as well impracticable economic idealism as the more common fault of a callous social conscience...
TODAY 9.15 O'clock Chemistry B Mr. Church, 5Harvard 8 Mr. Darling, 2 Harvard 6 Mr. Hussey, 6 Harvard 6 Mr. Davis, 1 Harvard 6 Mr. Root, 3 Harvard 5 Mr. White, 4 Harvard 5 Class. Archaeology 1b Emerson D Comp. Literature 6a Harvard 1 Economics A Mr. Bigelow, M, U New Lect. Hall Mr. Bober, I, N, V New Lect. Hall Mr. Chamberlin, C, F, O New Lect. Hall Mr. Epstein, B, D, K, P New Lect. Hall Mr. Kreps, G, Q, W Memorial Hall Mr. Mason, L, R Memorial Hall Mr. Opie, J, S Memorial Hall Mr. Taylor...