Word: assistance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ingenious fellow in my office prepared a fake 'diary' of a German soldier, who was supposed to have had to assist in boiling down some of his comrades. And it was planned that a certain correspondent who had a passion for German diaries should be allowed to 'discover' it. ... But I felt that the deception had gone far enough. . . . An error in the diary might have led to an exposure of the falsity, which would have imperiled the effectiveness of all British propaganda. ... It was never used and is now in the London War Museum...
After asserting that this body "enjoys powers which no political ruler in the civilized world would dream of claiming," Mr. Shaw proceeded to wax indignant against the Council for blacklisting not only osteopaths but "any physician who dares to assist an osteopath as his anesthetist...
Naturally Radcliffe students are distressed at this scurrilous, not to say libelous, attack upon their personal charms. And the CRIMSON which makes it part of its policy to assist damsels in distress at all times, and to get the Lampoon whenever possible, has given to indignant Radcliffe the Crime Column of this Thursday, in which to clear themselves in the eyes of the world...
Laurence Schwab '14, who on several occasions since leaving Harvard has come back is Cambridge to assist in the staging of the annual Hasty Pudding plays, will bring to the Plymouth Theatre in Boston Monday night his latest production. "The Firebrand" a comedy which won wide success in New York last season...
...most interesting experience," he said, "was a visit to France during the War. In 1918, at the request of the authorities, I went abroad to see what could be done to assist morale and combat homesickness, a very prevalent and really serious malady, in our camps overseas, by sending to our soldiers the atrical entertainment from home. In company with Mr. E. B. Sothern, the Shakesperean actor, I spent three months surveying the varied conditions. We visited at least 50 of The American encampments, and spent one night under artillery fire at Toul, which was then our front...