Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serving for four years because he had once been the "crown prince" of automobile thieves. He discarded automobiles in favor of airplanes. He became a hero. In 1923 a colony of fishermen were trapped by a blizzard on South Fox Island in Lake Michigan. Aviator Parker flew to their aid, carrying food and clothing. In 1924 he was a guarantor of the Carpentier-Gibbons fight at . Michigan City, Ind. People wondered whence he had acquired his wealth. Last week he and eight of his employes were indicted as the operators of 45 breweries and an airplane bootlegging system. Federal agents...
...should miss. We may take it for granted that the non-intellectual element, which incidentally does not read this column will be present at this event anyway: but even the students may benefit from it by witnessing the best modern representation of a Roman holiday. It is for the aid of the members of the latter group that I shall say a few words about my personal plans that they may model their conduct after mine...
...plot centers about a conspiracy to dethrone the caliph of the city, and place in his stead a treacherous, vizier who works, in conspiracy with a court dancer, to seize the ruler's daughter, who, with the aid of a self-declared magician, exposes the treachery by preying upon the superstition of the caliph...
...youth a part of scholastic achievements." Here undoubtedly he has hit upon a vital point. Since youth is so valuable--and so fleeting--will not scholasticism tend to sap its strength? If allowed to overwhelm youth, it will; in the correct proportion, however, larger intellectual fields will be an aid to the preservation of the first part of life...
...mechanical age, perhaps realizing that the means of transportation and the aid to labor which was the custom of all previous centuries should not be allowed to fade entirely from the mind of man, has seen fit to erect a lasting memorial to the horse. A section of the American Museum of Natural History is to be set aside for relics of the horse age; skeletons, plaster casts, paintings--all recalling the day when the horse was the rule, not the exception are to be stored therein. If the children of tomorrow are to be deprived of the sight...