Word: assisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loans to 5%. The order did not affect Veterans Administration mortgages-still fixed by law at 4½% - but the Administration is expected to ask Congress in January to bring the VA rate into line. Said one Government official: "People in America want to buy homes, and this will assist them to get the financing they need...
...Francophile intent on cramming in as much esoteric knowledge as possible about Napoleon, Egypt, archaeology, physics, intrigue and strategy. Fortunately, both writers are combined in Humorist Ruth (My Sister Eileen) McKenney, so that sex is more often ridiculous than salacious, and the historical asides often get a witty assist over the dusty pit of pedantry...
Theopold will assist Alexander M. White '25, General Chairman of the program, in raising alumni funds for the multi-million dollar drive to strengthen the College's educational program...
...immensity of his personal victory placed Dwight Eisenhower in a position unique in U.S. political history. As has no other President, he towers above his own political party. In other words, even with his epochal assist, the G.O.P. came perilously close to disaster. Ike is pledged to remake the Republican Party in the next four years, and his success in keeping the pledge may well decide its electoral future. He has powerful logic on his side: after 1956 it will be a foolhardy Republican who defies his wishes...
...from community subscriptions. But the chief source of revenue was the plain generosity of the people of New England. From 1644 to 1652 enough families contributed a peck of wheat or a shilling of money to support the entire teaching staff of the College, excluding the President, and to assist ten or twelve poor scholars...