Word: uprooting
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...France cannot possibly wish to uproot a tree which she has watered with so much care; we would not wish you to think that the United States are becoming ungrateful to a country which has rendered them a great service and which can always give them support against their enemies. It is the interest of both powers to bind closer and closer the ties which unite them...
...resort to bayonet and bomb so long as they have not imbibed the spirit of the Nazarene. That spirit is religious, of God, and produced and multiplied in a place of worship even better than in a place of scholarship. Only the highest ideals and the deepest convictions will uproot the seeds of war. These ideas and convictions are born of religion. Let us have our chapel and also the professor's Chair to aid and abet the altar and the pulpit. George L. Paine...
Such a course or its equivalent would be an invaluable addition to every college curriculum. In these days of economic and social extremists and political confusion any aid to a more balanced viewpoint is worth a trial. Whether the new study at Columbia will really uproot the cruder and more stupid forms of radicalism as well as the more stubborn tendencies of conservatism among immature students is open to grave doubts. But the principle is right...
...British House of Commons has been likened to the trunk of an elephant: It can uproot a tree or pick up a pin. The same might be said of our democratic form of government. In New York City Mayor Hylan has become terribly excited about the City Hall cat, which lapped up six dollars and fifty cents' worth of milk last year. The city administration is aghast at this peculation of the public funds. Why cannot Robert, the cat, eat the scraps from the janitor's table and save the common people all this vast expenditure? cry the city fathers...
...that other New Haven game: we know that winning from Princeton is an old Yale custom--a rule which has been proved by few exceptions since 1899. Of late years, too, the habit of losing on the following Saturday has developed. Yale's customs are stubborn things to uproot...