Word: assists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Church, President of the Carnegie Institute. On the De Grasse (French)-Joseph C. Stehlin, famed U. S. ace, with a 183-karat diamond bought from the ex-Sultan of Morocco; Florence Walton and Leon Leitrim, dancers. On the Leviathan (United States) - Henry M. Robinson, Los Angeles banker, to assist Owen D. Young in the op eration of the Experts' Plan; Warren Pershing, son of General Pershing, to attend an English public school; Jackie Coogan, cinema actor...
...right. There was a day when she made covenants and engagements in her own name and was not content to be merely the beneficiary of the effort and good-will of others. Today, apparently, she has no other program than to 'encourage American citizens and resources to assist in restoring Europe with the sympathetic support'-but nothing more-'of our Government.' It is a far cry to this from the declaration of Theodore Roosevelt that 'If we are to be a really great people we must strive in good faith to play a great part...
...David Todd, of Amherst, were tempted to listen. Positive results were of course few. ¶In Vancouver, a radio station heard a regular series of dashes or zipps every day at certain hours; these, however, were explained as signals from "radio beacons" set up by the U. S. to assist vessels...
Agriculture. "I confess that my inheritance and personal experience have bred in me a keen interest in the welfare of agriculture. ... As many as 15 laws have been passed to assist and support this fundamental industry. Through the War Finance Corporation it has been extended credits of between...
...present instance, a death ray was included to give that natty modern touch. No matter how often you have been to the cinemas, the incoherent multitude of these manufactured thrills serves a sure purpose. There is an inevitable, if factitious, reaction. Matt Moore and Patsy Ruth Miller assist materially in making the discerning spectators feel like fools in the dark for enjoying such arrant debris...