Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large number of gifts they secured from others. Mr. Vanderbilt's gift of the gymnasium and his final gift to complete the fund, are, however, by far the largest part of the fund and constitute the most generous recognition of the wisdom of the project and a most valuable aid to the Medical School...
...unresisting, to jail. He charged that it was a "frame-up." According to the official accounts he was: 1) drunkenly throwing things around in the restaurant, or 2) being fed by two lady companions when arrested; he resisted and the policeman was obliged to deputize others present to aid in taking him to the station-house...
...English Department. Although still a young man, he has already pursued scholarship to the point of pedantry, and shows so great an enthusiasm for the mechanics of literature,--bibliographies, card catalogs, and philological dictionaries,--that he seems to have lost any love for literature itself. Doubt- less a valuable aid to graduate students in their highly technical researches, Dr. Nagoun possesses none of the qualities necessary for a teacher of undergraduates. To an undergraduate he seems no better fitted to be a teacher of English literature than is a genealogist to be an historian...
...elected to assist her flight from justice. Two savage tramps fall in love with her; detectives pick up the trail and the second act is played in a box car of the westering freight. The stubby redhead protects her from the tramps, finally winning their admiration, and their aid in a getaway across the Border...
...angrily out of New England, Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, bumblebee of U. S. pedagogy, has circled uncertainly about over the educational field, shooting off for a space to Europe, returning to circle some more, with a louder buzz about an "independent college" to be founded for three millions with the aid of friends (TIME, June 25, 1923 et seq; Sept. 15, 1924). At one point, the students of Knox College informally extended a bouquet to the buzzing one, in the shape of their presidential chair (TIME, Dec. 29), but the circling continued, not only because the Knox trustees were silent...