Word: aid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matches this afternoon should according to all indications be easy for the Crimson netmen for Oakley's team, Which is led by G. H. Perkins '26, has had only one workout, and that yesterday morning. The experience gain of the stay at Norfolk will aid Harvard considerably...
...recent resignation of Marshal Feng from the post of Nationalist War Minister (TIME, April 8), strengthened the rebels' confidence that he would aid them against the Government; but as battle lines were drawn, last fortnight, Feng remained steadfast, and when definite confirmation of this reached Hankow, last week, the house of cards collapsed. Despatches indicated that Master Mind Chiang had kept Marshal Feng's allegiance by promising that he and his peculiar Private Army shall be allowed to occupy and police the rich Chinese province of Shantung. Though the rebels were utterly routed at Hankow on the north...
...Brother Lawrence, as to the other Fishers, the world of mechanics is understandable, governed by ineluctable laws of physics. The Fishers have learned these laws well and by their aid gained gold. But it was quite another world which Brother Lawrence faced last week, a world strange and unaccountably called Art. Upon its vague terrain, he was nonplussed, vexed. That is why he cried, "Hell's ringing bells...
...have done more work during the past year than ever before. I have written a novel, short stories and several essays. It is true, I believe, that being unable to see is a great aid to concentration. You are not distracted by outside elements...
...social force have hitherto prevented this field from receiving proper treatment. Only recently with the increasing interest in history as the story of men rather than of their generals has the importance of an institution, which has never had political aspirations on this continent been recognized. Such aid as is now given to the study of this virtually virgin territory promotes the "welfare and prosperity of the human race" in a very comprehensive sense...