Word: assistance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probable that the public authorities will judge the degree of compliance of the University by the reduction in its overall use of electricity," Durant stated. "As a very large amount of the lighting is in dormitory rooms, it is hoped that the student body will assist in reducing the overall use by using their lights only when necessary...
Disappointed in the response to the Phillips Brooks House call for blood donors, Raymond R. Schiff '47, chairman of the Blood Donor Committee, last night issued a plea to all men who, at registration pledged their willingness to assist in the drive to answer the letters sent to them last week and also urged any other volunteers to contact his committee...
...opposition within Yugoslavia (which Tito has ruthlessly suppressed): "We are not against any opposition movement which desires to assist in the reconstruction of the country." But, added Tito indignantly, the present opposition actually "seeks to profit by the mistakes we make." He made a grim prophecy: "I know [the opposition] will never become stronger, only weaker...
...would he talk. Harold Samuel Gerson, 41, Montreal-born Communist spy, preferred to keep his own secrets, though as an engineer in Canada's wartime Munitions Department, he had given away several Canadian state secrets to Russia. Government officials had appealed to him, "as a Canadian citizen, to assist his Government by supplying any information in his possession regarding Soviet espionage." Gerson snapped...
Garnot, who is the youngest faculty member of the Ecole des Hautes Etude and a specialist in Egyptian relations, has been sent to this country on behalf of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to establish relations with and assist American scholars in learning the latest developments in European research...