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Word: assists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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With no friendly army or air force to give assault forces an assist on the China beaches, it may well be necessary for the U.S. to stage the China coastal operation from Formosa - and Formosa, 225 miles long, mountainous, fortified by the Japs since 1895, can be captured only by a bloody major campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Pause for Estimates | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

Everything possible has been done by the University through its Health Service and other agencies to assist the boys in finding the type of activity that would be most helpful to them both mentally and physically, and where activity of any kind seemed inadvisable, they have-been entirely released from the requirement. All of these adjustments have been in close collaboration with the veteran board administrator on the campus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1944 | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

...civilian life. There was one occasion last spring when his Washington superiors, after a checkup, temporarily stepped in to help. With invasion only a few weeks away, General Lee's organization had not yet ordered 214 items (adding up to some 300,000 units) for the invasion. That assist from Washington may have helped smooth the invasion, and General Lee's record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Miracle of Supply | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

Featuring Handel's Solomon Choruses, the program will include works by Thompson, Schuman, Sullivan, and a collection of football songs. Ethel P. Bernard of Radcliffe will assist Fine, who is directing in place of the vacationing Professor G. Wallace Woodworth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard - Radcliffe to Present Yard Concert | 8/29/1944 | See Source »

...Guggenheim Latin American Fellowships are granted annually to assist and encourage research and creative work in all fields of art and scholarship. The stipend is usually $2,000, plus travelling expenses. In addition to the Fellowships for work at Harvard, two-were granted this year to artists, three to philosophers, two to biologists, and one each to an historian, a chemist, an economist, and a lawyer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Award Recipients Plan Studies Here | 8/25/1944 | See Source »

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