Word: assists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visible to gay youths returning to bed from the bright reaches of Tremont Street, clippers in hand and in the company of his inevitable spaniel, pruning the barberry hedge along Quincy Street. Top-hatted and tall-coated, he once deserted a meeting of the overseers of the university to assist workmen at an excavation back of Matthews Hall where it was reported buried fragments of eighteenth century Harvard blue plate had been recovered. His fund of anecdotes is inexhaustible. The conductors of the subway to Boston salute him by name since, like all true and thrifty Gantabrigians, he eschews...
...Boston Chapter of the American Red Cross has requested the Social Service Committee of Brooks House to assist in securing Harvard men to deliver bulk packages of food and clothing to the Red Cross distributing centers in Boston. Volunteers have been asked to spend three hours at any time of the day that they choose. The Red Cross in the past has often used college men to perform its pressing relief functions, and as the winter season approaches, there has been a growing volume of demand for these materials which the Red Cross distributes. Those men who are willing...
...officers of the Senior class, four graduate secretaries, and the Purchasing Agent of the University, will hold its first meeting on Tuesday, November 29, following a luncheon at the Faculty Club. The committee was organized this year for the purpose of affording both graduates and undergraduates an opportunity to assist in making Class Day plans...
...London several thousand "hunger marchers" gave His Majesty's Government their excuse for keeping mum, an example followed by Conservative papers. The Laborite Daily Herald flayed "Herriot's red herring," denounced his Six Conditions as intended to wreck the Disarmament Conference while seeming to assist it. Liberal editors were delighted by M. Herriot's insistence on compulsory arbitration, but on the whole Great Britain's reaction was cold...
Certain weird sounds issuing from the rostrum of the Assembly of the League of Nations last week were only President Eamon de Valera opening the session with these words in Gaelic: "May God assist us in the exalted task before us; may He not permit that we should fail...