Word: aid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been found that seniors are generally too busy, with divisional examinations in prospect, to afford as much time to managerial duties as is desirable. It is pointed out also that under the new system the manager in office will be in a position always to receive valuable aid and advice from an experienced predecessor who will be on hand to help him. These appear to be the chief reasons advanced to explain this innovation in managerial policy,--an innovation which, provided it works well in one instance, may spread much farther...
There are four activities, however, which are authorized by the Law School, and in which all eligible law men are encouraged to take part: The Law Review Board, the Student Advisory Committee, the Legal Aid Bureau, and the Law Clubs, including the Ames Competition. Men for the first three are chosen according to their rank as fixed by the annual examinations. while the Law Clubs are open to all members of the Law School...
Undoubtedly the execution of the pledges of the campaign managers is fraught with difficulty. National budgets have assumed proportions which, in a sense, defy accuracy: local aid must frequently elude the party ledger; while human fallacy is an ever-present factor. The existing is still far removed from perfection, but if the two National Committees approve, even under the constraint of public opinion, something of a step has been taken in the financial purification of campaigns...
...Velodrome. Some of the women at Hot Springs would doubtless have liked to be cool to the daughter, my dear, of a man who used to be a bicycle jockey. Glenna, however, dressed more smartly, had better manners than many a woman whose fathers won their money without the aid of their sporting instincts. When she drives about in her blue Mercer, a police dog named after a wolf in a story by Ernest Seton Thompson, Lobo, sits up beside her; she leaves her fox-terrier at home...
Many companies by honest explanation of their money troubles or by aid of politicians have succeeded in getting local fares increased-but not enough to pay good dividends on their capital stock...