Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest in it. He said he had fine connections with certain Naval officers and could furnish me information that would help me in my fight for a stronger Navy.? He told me of several inventions of his, and I replied that I would be glad of any aid he could give, I did not find him to be a Naval expert in any particular sense...
...Dunois, Bastard of Orleans, defeated the English, and with the aid of Joan of Arc saved France for King Charles VII. Last week Princess Charlotte, illegitimate and adopted daughter of the Prince of Monaco, rose from her sickbed at Nice and saved Monaco for Prince Louis...
...told him: "Judgment, courage, and that combining and balancing quality which may be called resourcefulness." Perhaps I might better have used the good old Yankee word "gumption." He smiled at me indulgently. "Well," he said, "you can't teach those." The response was obvious: "Does West Point training aid in developing successful Army officers, and what apart from technical knowledge and honesty, makes for success in that profession?" He meditated a moment, and then replied: "I see your point." And he agreed with me that while a good military school or staff college cannot guarantee the quantity production of Napoleons...
...there are more than 209 million Mohammedans on earth and slightly less than 16 million Children of Israel. In Palestine there are 591,000 Moslems and only 150,000 Jews, of whom some 2,000 are from the U. S. Last week Jews all over the world rallied to aid their outnumbered brethren in the Holy Land...
...Aid. The Federal Farm Board agreed upon a $9,000,000 loan, half from its own resources, half from California banks, to grape and raisin growers to assist them in marketing the 1929 crop. Since Prohibition the grape industry has boomed, vineyards have been doubled, overexpansion has occurred...