Word: assists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Assist (baseball term...
...White House visitors last week included: 1) Rear-Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, back from the Antarctic (see p. 18); 2) U. S. Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes, en route to assist in planning the World's Fair at Chicago; 3) President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, who said after seeing the President: "I discussed . . . the question of unemployment. . . . The situation is decidedly encouraging now. . . . I am rather of the opinion that the census report will show the number of unemployed will not be as great as some have forecast...
...Parliament would be well advised," he lectured, pounding the rostrum, "to create a body subordinate to itself to assist in its deliberations to the utmost. The spectacle of economic subordinates debating day after day with a fearless detachment from public opinion all the most disputed questions of finance and trade and reaching conclusions by voting would be an innovation, but an innovation which could easily be embraced by our flexible constitutional system...
...list of men who will assist Trainer is as follows: R. C. Aldrich '31, E. C. Amazeen '31, R. P. Angier Jr. '32, W. P. Arnold Jr. '31, A. S. Bullock '32, R. McH. Chilson '31, P. S. Dalton Jr. '31, M. M. dePicabia '31, S. P. Duggan '31, C. S. Eaton '32, R. S. Edwards '31, R. M. Faxon '32, D. C. Forbes '31, J. B. Garrison '31, L. N. Grimes '31, J. A. Holmes '32, A. W. Huguley '31, R. H. Johnson Jr. '31, F. H. Kales 3d. '32, J. L. Madden '31, Geoffrey Parsons...
...interest, unless he has developed a measure of intellectual curiosity and mental will-power, he is unlikely to be a success in college, whatever his facility in a direction where he may have found case and entertainment. These are the most important liquid assets which the secondary school can assist him to acquire. His permanent intellectual capital consists not in a completed educational structure but in the foundation which he has built broad enough and strong enough to carry either the superstructure that he has planned and begun to erect or even a different type of edifice which...