Word: aid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock. Sympathetic Adolf Hitler has cheered loudly when Friend Benito Mussolini corrected the "pyramidal errors of geography." II Duce has applauded as the Führer grabbed Lebensraum ("living space") for himself. The two even joined hands for a while in Spain. But while committed to give moral aid to each other, no German-Italian understanding to give military help was ever put down in black & white. In fact, rainbow-chasing French and British politicians believed that Italy would balk before it came to that...
...average annual expenditure of the entire upperclass student body is $18.00; this would bring up the average expenditure of tutoring aid to $72.00 for each undergraduate during his four year college course...
Since Great Britain and France gave guarantees to Poland and Rumania promising them military aid in event of aggression, the Russians have suspected that the British might allow Germany to invade the U. S. S. R. by way of Latvia, Esthonia, Finland, or Lithuania...
...avoid the pitfalls of Freshman year which can so easily be dodged if a measure of thoughtful advice on instructors and courses is forthcoming. It has been for several years the Crimson's aim to furnish this advice to new men; hence, the Confidential Guide has become a traditional aid to incoming, Freshmen. This year, minus its somewhat misleading title, "Confidential," the Freshman Guide will be written to stress student opinion on first year courses, disregarding for the autumn at least the secondary problem of choice of fields of concentration...
...before it can be considered beautiful and the greater degree of utility it has, the more beautiful it is. But art is only useful when it can become assimilated into the daily life of a person, when it can be taken from its silver platter and caten without the aid of knife and fork. And the only way in which any work of art is able to fulfill its function in society (and it does have a function) is by being placed where people gather to sit naturally, smoke, and talk in a normal, not a hushed, tone of voice...