Word: aid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five years ago, and with fine New England hauteur, Harvard refused to accept proffered aid from President Roosevelt's N. Y. A. Presumably taking the attitude that the college can care for her own, an offer of $135 for each of approximately 300 students was refused. Now that new sources of money must be found for the floundering Temporary Student Employment Plan--floundering because dining hall profits no longer exist--this bit of misdirected individualism appears all the more unfortunate...
...third time, however, the old "Savior of Madrid," whose military acumen was never rated very high, seemed likely to be mistaken. The "rebel" forces had been cleared out of the centre of Madrid, but they were still said to be holding important outskirts with 30,000 men. Furthermore, aid to them was on its way from other fronts. The chances were that the Loyalist forces, within plain view of their common enemies, would fight each other until the Franco Army, last week more a spectator than a fighting force, stepped in and cleaned them...
After he had emphasized the tremendous importance of the historical approach as an aid to understanding art, Feild said, "We are holding on to the past, while new forms are growing up too fast to be appreciated...
...Thomas J. Courtney, 44, who jumped on the Horner bandwagon when it invaded Chicago. Left stranded when Henry Horner patched up a truce with Bosses Kelly & Nash, Tom Courtney opposed Ed Kelly's renomination on his own hook, raised a hue & cry over Windy City corruption with the aid of Colonel William Franklin Knox's Daily News. Mayor Kelly got practically all other kinds of support available: C. I. O. and A. F. of L., Old Deal and New Deal, the Communist Midwest Daily...
...promising Bull Lea in a spectacular stretch finish, 21,000 racing addicts jam-packed the Park-from the 40 ? bleacher section reserved for colored folks to the ;ony terrace boxes atop the clubhouse. Everyone talked Stagehand-from Fred Snite Jr., the famed iron lung patient who, with the aid of a periscope and mirrors, watched the races from Ks ambulance railer parked midway down the homestretch, and the sport writer who bet his salary on Stagehand, to Seminole Indians who were lured from their nearby reservation to do a war dance in the infield for Mr. Widener's customers...