root of the trouble
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Last week a group of harassed neutrals formed the Paris Citizens' League and signed up 1,200 members determined to get to the root of the trouble.
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Intellectuals are apt to consider themselves somewhat more intelligent and sensitive than most people, and in Poe's case, the root of the trouble seems to have been that he was.
From Time Magazine Archive
His columnist colleague on the New York Herald Tribune, Pundit Walter Lippmann, tartly observed that the President's predilection for postponing world political decisions until after the war was the root of the trouble.
From Time Magazine Archive
The root of the trouble lies in the intuition that at bottom he is incapable of thinking about anyone but himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a few cases, this will be found to be true, but in the great majority the root of the trouble is that the heart craves exercise.
From Health Through Will Power by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
