Word: assistance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Growing out of wartime research in sound sponsored by the Army and Navy, the project was originally part of a nation-wide program to assist in the rehabilitation of aural casualties...
Also difficult to get around was the Anglican unwillingness to allow laymen to administer Holy Communion. The compromise: only presbyters may administer Communion, but others, appointed by the church, may assist in its administration...
Final figures on the grand total and amounts drawn by each activity will emanate from Agassiz Hall today, Miss Davis said last night. During the week, students will assist the Radcliffe secretarial staff in counting and distributing the money...
Last week Ed Pauley, who had done a workmanlike job for the President as his special ambassador on reparations, came back to Washington. Harry Truman had appointed him as a special temporary assistant to Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall. His duties would be to assist in industrial procurement; the War Department said that the job-which does not require Senate confirmation-would take about three months...
...imperial closed shop. Bevin took another poke at the rich old bogey of the U.S. "I know these Americans will be upset," he said, "but I've got to upset somebody. My own conviction is that she handicapped herself ... by failure to redistribute the Fort Knox gold ... to assist in increasing the purchasing power of the devastated areas of the world...