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Word: assists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...further step towards effecting the pledge of all Harvard resources in the war effort, President Conant announced yesterday the appointment of two University committees to aid in public understanding of war problems and one committee to assist in furthering hemispheric solidarity. These are officially titled the Committee on War Speakers, Committee on Wartime Public Opinion, and Committee on Pan-American Relations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Organizes Groups To Help Clarify War Issues | 2/3/1942 | See Source »

...Cutten has always loved discipline and self-denial. (Himself a rugged example to his students, he has never in his life worn an overcoat, at 67 still braves the bitterest weather in his indoor clothes.) Also on occasion he has denounced doctors, philanthropists, relief, Social Security, because they assist in the "suicide of civilization" by coddling the unfit. Of the Declaration of Independence theory that "all men are created equal," Dr. Cutten humphs: "If it were true, there could never be a winner in a foot race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Colgate's Cutten | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...second day the new draftee reports to the recreation center where: (1) he is interviewed by trained personnel technicians for the purpose of recording all of his civilian education and experience to assist in properly assigning him to some branch of the service; (2) he is then given a simple classification test to determine his mental ability for all future references; (3) a series of regular training films will be shown so that he may know the basic principles of military courtesy; (4) the Articles of War, the laws and rules that govern the conduct of military men, are then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Draftees Run Gamut Of Exams, Reports | 1/28/1942 | See Source »

...Republicans, it is our duty as a party and each in his individual capacity to do all we can to assist the man who has been appointed to bring American productive effort to the utmost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Thing to Do | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...Organized or enforced rest periods, particularly with an opportunity to take food during the period, assist in the maintenance of a high output level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health in Industry | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

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