Word: aid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world is closing in on the Class of 1949. For the last 20 years or so, today's graduates have been floating along through life with the aid of nurses, parents, school-teachers, and more recently, for some, government money. And most seniors realize that this happy state of affairs is going to end pretty soon. Some are trying to postpone the day of reckoning by sneaking off to graduate or professional schools, or by hiding cravenly in summer jobs or Continental tours. But the world is closing in on everybody--and it's no bargain...
...because of rising expenses, "when the last veteran leaves, Harvard will be able to offer less scholarship aid, in real terms, than before...
President W. K. Jordan accepted the gift for the college from Mrs. Horace W. Frost, president of the Association. He told the alumnae, and their guests, the Class of 1949, that the sum had been raised "without the aid and stimulus of any large gift...
...Wright names the Calumet horses as most owners do-starting with the names of the sire and dam, going on from there with the aid of dictionaries, Roget's Thesaurus, friends' suggestions, etc. She has found that horses named after friends seldom turn out well...
From the other end of the line spoke Florida's Claude Pepper. In Taft's mellow old age, he predicted, Taft would remember with more pleasure his support of federal housing, education, medical aid, "than he will recall his Herculean success in putting the retarding fist of his power in the face of the multitudes struggling up the ladder of life to enjoy a few of the satisfactions to which the fortunate were born...