Word: root
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Actors have always formed a powerful minority. Only dramatic critics are excluded by rule-to avoid the possible embarrassment of having them run into actors they have panned. The long list of celebrated members includes Grover Cleveland, Mark Twain, Sir Henry Irving, the elder J. P. Morgan, Elihu Root, John Singer Sargent (whose Edwin Booth hangs in the club), George Bellows, John Philip Sousa, Richard Mansfield, and the club's three Presidents who followed Booth-Joseph Jefferson, John Drew and Walter Hampden...
...this very weekend at New Haven, says the Associated Press, "students began pushing parked cars into the streets and at one point a box used to store sand was overturned, and a free-for-all sand fight started." Now, in their immaturity, these Elis were striking at the very root of two hallowed institutions: the WPA sand pile project and the old New Haven custom of parking on the side-walk...
Although Dow Chemical has branches elsewhere, the root of its business is still in Midland, Mich., where in 1890 Founder Herbert Dow, two years out of Case School of Applied Science, first set up shop. There plumbing 1,200 feet to a huge salt pool, he began refining the brine into everything from patented laxatives to synthetic indigo dyes...
...plant; in other words by a vegetative method. After auxin had been found and made, it was Thimann discovered that when the end of a plant shoot had been left in a solution of auxin for twenty-four hours and planted immediately and cared for diligently, it would take root and an entirely normal plant would result...
Read's false definition leads to a false antithesis: resentational"' art between and traditional as nontraditional "rep as ''non-representational" art. Analyst Her ter thinks this is the root of modern confusion...