Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order to succeed in war. If it is possible to create a science of war, it may not be impossible to create a science of peace." At this a lady who has done much for Johns Hopkins clapped her hands together. She was Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root, who started the drive for the Johns Hopkins Eye Hospital (TIME, Feb. 23, MEDICINE). That evening Dr. Goodnow, Dr. Young, dined in state at the Maryland Club with many other notables...
...Then Mr. Root arose: "It was 57 years ago that I joined the Union League Club. Of the men who joined in that year, only three are now alive: George F. Baker, Chauncey M. Depew and myself. . . . Mr. Baker travels on golden clouds and Mr. Depew has given up counting his years by ordinary measures of time, using light-years instead...
...have more honest elections, the very root of the working of our institutions. . . . There is far greater honesty in public service than there was half a century ago. The excesses and frauds of the Tweed Ring would be impossible today. In the Congress of the United States, if any man be suspected of crookedness, he is a marked...
...Aida de Acosta Root, wife of Wren Root, Manhattan Traction magnate and nephew of Lawyer Elihu Root, was going blind. Across Europe she hurried, from hospital to hospital, received little help, took ship, came to the U. S., to Washington, D. C, asked for an appointment with Dr. William Holland Wilmer, famed eye specialist. Said Dr. Wilmer's secretary: "You can have an appointment in six weeks...
...going blind," said Mrs. Root. "I must...