Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instant the Prince sprawled at full length?unhorsed by Fate. Then he rushed to summon aid for "Oh, Dear," whose instantaneous death seemed at first incredible...
...First aid was administered to him at a nearby hut. His left arm and shoulder were strapped and bound to prevent straining the fracture. Solicitous hands bundled him into a heavy overcoat, buttoned it tightly across his chest, turned up the fur collar about his ears. His chauffeur drove him carefully to Market Harborough station. There he picked up the public telephone instrument with his free hand and called his secretary at York House, London: "I'll be back to dinner, and you'll see that there's very little the matter with...
...daily collaborator and authorized interpreter of our ideas has been an indefatigable aid under many heavy difficulties, but has been comforted by serving the cause of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ...
...These discharges are visible by night as the aurora borealis or Northern Lights. So strong was the free current from this source one day that telegraph messages were sent on its 150 volts from Pittsfield, Mass. to. Springfield, Mass. (50 miles) without the aid of batteries. Elsewhere the free current had the opposite effect, suspending telephone and telegraph service...
...Cingalese bride from Ceylon, bearing him two sons in the interim. When he returned to his palace she followed as a white peacock, watched her sons grow up, adored Meng Beng mutely. When he was dying, she revived him, at the cost of her own life, with the aid of "the only magician the world knows?Love." The properties include: howdahed elephants, "myriad golden and jewel-encrusted bells," colored glass balls, cheroots, a betel-nut box, "dragons of gold with eyes of jade," "Buddhas of gigantic size with heads that move," parrots, crows, peacocks...