Word: assists
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...furnish you information about one another during future years unless you promptly send me your addresses. Delay or negligence in this will only make my work more difficult and its results less satisfactory, and I trust therefore that in regard both to this and to class lives you will assist me in getting this information, which it is my duty to obtain, while it is only through your kindness that I can obtain...
...concern in New York advertises as follows : "Families who are about giving receptions, dinner parties, or other entertainments, will be gratified to know that persons, who will assist in making these events pleasant and enjoyable, can be obtained through the mediate of the World Employment Bureau. These persons will not be professionals, but parties of culture and refinement, who will appear well, dress elegantly, and mingle with the guests, while able and willing to play, sing, converse fluently, tell a good story, give a recitation, or anything that will help to make an evening pass quickly and pleasantly . . . . The attendance...
...case of the recent Poeenix Park tragedy in Dublin, a man has been found who says that he can at any time lay his hands on the murderers. He also says that while in Dublin, he refused an offer of pound 100 to assist in the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke...
...Messrs. Keith and Bunney, Horatius-like, leapt into the foaming flood and swam to the nearest land, which proved to be the Charles river embankment, some 50 feet distant. The remainder of the crew pulled the boat to the Union Club float, but there was no one there to assist them in landing, while the heavy sea running threatened to dash them against the float. Another chance was given for some one to distinguish himself, and though each wished to show himself worthy of the crew of '83, Mr. Sherwood settled the matter by jumping over-board, swimming...
...certain prominent book-seller of Cambridge, frightened at the brilliant prospects of the Co-operative Association, has betaken himself to intimidating his fellow-tradesmen. This man has threatened the most dire evils to Cambridge merchants who shall support or aid in any way the attempts of the students to assist themselves in the matter of purchases. "I will arouse," said he, "such a powerful public sentiment against the thing that any merchant who aids these fellows will regret it." There is no man in Cambridge who has made as much money from Harvard students as the very person...