Word: assisted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...husband encased her in a tomb which was opened only last month. Ancient doctors used forceps (which killed the baby) and performed Caesarean sections (which killed the mother) in cases of difficult delivery. Hindus today often put a brazier of hot charcoal under the maternity bed to assist Nature. More primitive obstetricians help by jumping up & down on the pregnant woman's abdomen...
...between the two judges, not by the tie-breaking vote of the referee, but by totalling the points scored by each judge from round to round of the bout. These notes, how- ever, are personal memoranda taken by each judge at his own option merely to assist him in casting an impersonal vote, according to the N.C.A.A. and according to customary usage...
...said Rt. Rev. James De Wolf Perry, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, to a tall, blond young man in the Cathedral of St. John in Providence, R. I. one day last week. The young man's mother and two beaming aunts sat in nearby pews. To assist the red-robed Episcopal primate in the job at hand were the young man's onetime headmaster as preacher, his younger brother as crucifer, two of his cousins as crosier-bearer and litanist. His hands trembling with emotion, Bishop Perry draped a stole about the neck of his first...
...Presiding Bishop, no disheartening job-hunting was necessary. Next month he becomes curate of Christ and St. Luke's Church in Norfolk (1,300 communicants). By the powers bestowed upon him last week by his Father in God & in flesh, Deacon Perry may assist in ministering Holy Communion, reading Scriptures, instructing youth, baptizing infants, may even preach with the permission of his bishop...
James B. Hallett, chairman, Walter H. Page, II, and William B. Schmidt, are on the committee which made these nominations, and they will be in charge of distributing and collecting ballots tomorrow. a group of about 20 Juniors will assist in this work. Arthur A. Ballantine, Jr. '36 and Benjamin H. Hallowell '36, members of the Student Council, will count the ballots and announce the results on Tuesday morning...