Word: aid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first success was in the Seven Days' battle. He stopped McClellan's advance at Mechanicsville, then cut Federal communication with the White House by cleverly passing his troops around to "Stonewall" Jackson's aid. Again the Union forces advanced, now under Pope. The bold strategy of ordering Jackson around Pope's wing to descend on his rear, and the lucky swelling of the Rappahannock River, combined to crush the invaders...
...Wales set a collar bone last week. The bone belonged to Captain Alexander of the Royal Navy who was a fellow competitor with H. R. H. in a point-to-point steeplechase at Oxton. When the Captain fell arid broke his bone, the Prince proceeded deftly to administer first aid, remarking: "I learned how . . . when I broke my own collar bone two years...
Nebuchadnezzar lay in the sun and ate grass. And good grass it was in days when few footsteps crushed its tender shoots and no motor exhaust laid a blight upon it. Not only its hardships but also its responsibilities have so increased that science must come to its aid. Last fortnight the University of Illinois announced that its scientists would work-with Erlenmeyer flask and petrie dish-on the problem of maintaining a satisfactory turf on football fields. The athletic association will make a 90-square checkerboard out of the gridiron. Running in crosswise strips will be nine different grasses...
Thus the Department warned U. S. oil men that if they do not choose to abide by the Morrow-Calles status quo, created last week, they can no longer count on State Department aid in bucking the Calles hegemony in Mexico...
...cause of the crack was to be found, at least partially, in Dr. Wise's eagerness to hurry the establishment of the Jewish Colony in Palestine as opposed to Dr. Weizmann's desire for less precipitous procedure. Dr. Weizmann is now in the U. S. to aid in securing...