Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since those days of the forties many changes have occurred. Swine no longer root up the mud in the Washington streets, and the mud has become shallow enough to make possible the use of trousers instead of rubber boots and knee breeches. The "City of Magnificent Intentions" has at last changed into the "City of Magnificent Distances", and at present is sedate and orderly enough...
...line-up for team B is as follows: TEAM B HARVARD CLUB 1. Carpenter Boggs 2. Glessner Eaton 3. Gardner Watson 4. Rose Davis 5. Bostwick Vickeray or Root...
...very unfortunate that Bishop Root, in his recent addresses, has very much misrepresented conditions in China. One would suppose that missionary education is the predominant factor that is determining the eventual outcome of Chinese educational and political developments. Nothing, in fact, is farther from the truth. The Chinese people are, on the whole, broadminded enough to permit missionary activities in educational work; but they always see to it that these activities are kept within bounds. As soon as the missionaries go beyond the limits, we grow impatient with them; and that is why, only a few months...
...Reverend Root, who is secretary of the Massachusetts Federation of Churches, has taken a leading part in arousing interest in the moving picture censorship bill which is up for referendum tomorrow...
...first issue of "Foreign Affairs" contains many significant articles by prominent men including Mr. Elihu Root, Honorary President of the Council of Foreign Affairs, President Eliot and two other Harvard men: Professor George H. Blakeslee '05 and Mr. Denys P. Meyers '06, adviser to the World Peace Foundation. The complete list of contents follows: A Requisite for the Success of Popular Diplomacy, Elihu Root The Policy of France, Andre Tardieu The Tacna-Arica Controversy, Edwin M. Borchard America's Next Contribution to Civilization, Charles W. Eliot The Little Entente, Eduard Benes Reconstruction in the Danube Countries, Josef Redlich Ireland; Resurgent...