Word: assistance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which followed. A bevy of panicky Chinamen from the galleys of the Fort Victoria started to run amok with kitchen knives. An armed officer quelled them; the well-regulated filling of lifeboats with women and children, then men, continued. Pilot boats, revenue cutters and other craft stood by to assist. Beneath a white pall, in a quiet, gelid sea, the Fort Victoria listed further and further to starboard until only seasoned Captain Albert R. Francis, his pilot, and a skeleton crew of twelve vigorous pumpers remained on board. An attempt was made to tow the foundering vessel to shore...
...blessing before meals, instead to bless the pantry cupboard once for all and thus save valuable time. Though he was destined for the ministry, after two years' schooling his father realized that Ben would do better in trade, took him out of school, made him assist in the family candle-shop. When Ben was twelve he was made apprentice to his older brother James, a printer; soon he was contributing anonymous articles, signed Mrs. Silence Dogood, to his brother's New England Courant. But Ben and James could not get along; at 17 Ben ran away, sailed...
...prime factors in the production of wealth are natural resources--land the most common--and human labor. To these the common-sense of man has added a third factor, which is essential to our present scale of production, capital--that portion of wealth which is laid aside to assist in future production. Current wealth production must be apportioned, on some basis, to the three factors in the form of rent to land, wages to labor and interest to capital. And from rent, wages and interest, one or all, must come the current living expenses of individuals, current expenses...
Tonight at 8.15 o'clock the Harvard Glee Club will sing in Symphony Hall. The Radcliffe Choral Society and 70 members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will assist...
...admire, the strong, stark, massive group of reinforced concrete warehouses that form a good part of the Bush Terminal. The work of Architect William Higginson, they are praised, described in many a book on industrial architecture. Fittingly enough, last week Builder Bush was elected head of a committee to assist the City of New York in formulating a new building code. His colleagues number 220, chosen by the Merchants' Association of New York to represent the public in future hearings on the building code. A city within a city is Brooklyn's great Bush Terminal. There are piers, warehouses, factories...