Word: assists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commendations were formed for admission to the Master and Head Tutor Chief among these was the decision to appoint a House Library committee, consisting of five undergraduates and three tutors, which will assist in the management of the House Library. The Library, which is already open for use by members of the House during the day, will consist of about 5000 volumes at first, with provision for growth to an ultimate size of over 20,000 volumes. Besides the main room, which has shelves for about 5000 books, there is a stack room large enough to hold 4000 more. Each...
...Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869), French-descended English physiologist and physician, onetime secretary of the Royal Society, after 50 years compilation published his famed and useful Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases in 1852, "so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition." His son John Lewis Roget enlarged and improved the Thesaurus in new editions until his death in 1908. John Lewis' son, Samuel Romilly Roget, physicist who did important work on the "aging"' and electro magnetic qualities of iron, continued the family revisions until 1911. Since then this reference book has been...
...assist families over the winter who are deprived of means of support through failure of their crops...
...farm board was created to assist the farmer and not for politics. From now until November politicians will be so busy saving the farmer, it might be just as well to take a vacation...
...compared with actual expenditures for the last fiscal year of $3,994,152,487 or an increase of $209,101,970, being an in crease of 5%. ... The largest increases are for the speeding up of buildings, inland waterways and public works to assist in unemployment, together with increased relief of veterans...