Word: uprootedness
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"A mechanical and industrial revolution has altered the whole pattern of American life. It has uprooted millions from the land and thrust them into a strange, incomprehensible and rapidly changing environment. So vast, so deep, so pervasive are the effects of this upon the premises of our conduct, upon the...
A little exploration in the Russian wilderness would doubtless reveal many interesting situations. Despite books like "Humanity Uprooted" and the flocks of lecturers who annually return from Moscow brimming with new information, one can never be sure he has a true conception of what Russia is actually doing. It is...
Several months ago, Dr. John Kunkel Small of the New York Botanical Garden took a train ride through the Mississippi delta, looked out of the window with his knowing botanical eye at the lush growth of the southern swamps. Suddenly he saw something which made him want to stop the...
The Mayo Clinic. Forty-seven years ago this summer Rochester was a leveled mass of ruins; a tornado had twisted its base, uprooted it. William Worrell Mayo, country doctor, Indian fighter, took charge of patching up the scores of injured people in the small town. His boys helped him.
In Moissac on the Tarn, Guillaume Durand, sabot-maker, saw his wife and three relatives drown while he stood on a wall with two children on his shoulders. In the nave of the village church were piled 100 corpses. On the highroad below medieval Albia man and woman, complete strangers...