Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said Professor Hudson, "has left us a legacy of two serious problems in connection with international law, although Mr. Root says we are ten times better off than five years ago. These two problems are the necessity of the renovation of the philosophical bases of international law and the necessity of conscious legislation in regard to international law. The first of these needs represents the intention and the second the actual vehicle...
...Yale meet on account of injury. It is likely that Goldberg also will be in condition for the meet, depending on the decision of the doctors at Wadsworth House this afternoon. He has been unable to take action for several weeks on account of a pulled ligament in his root...
...root of the whole difficulty lies a false assumption as to the function of a college paper. Looking for an analogy in the outside world, some students have drawn a parallel between the college paper and independent newspapers of journals of opinion. This is nonsense. If the editorial policy of the college paper were dictated by the personal whims of each succeeding editor, where would the college be? With the glee clubs and winning football teams drawing students to the college, this one editor by his personal opinions might be undoing all their good work. Suppose for instance, that...
...evidence that his young and beautiful wife, Beatrice, cannot become a mother without miraculous ministration, therapeutic aid or both. Now Beatrice is loved by an amorous nobleman, also young, who disguises himself as a doctor and comes, at her husband's request, to treat her with Mandragola, a root whose properties, the noble leech insists, will permit the aged merchant to realize his ambition, at least to all appearances. Thus the old man soon rejoices in the promise of an heir, and the young couple is also very well content...
...root whose properties permitted an aged merchant to realize his ambition...