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Word: assists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toronto's and the league's leading scorer Don Dunbar, played an important role in his team's victory and incroaned his lead in the race for individual scoring honors. He netted two goals and one assist to bring his total points to 23 in six games, holding a 6-point edge over Mol Williamson, of Queens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toronto Clinches International Crown; Green Nearly Quad League Champion | 2/15/1940 | See Source »

...Bureau (of Supervisors) is composed of fifty-five supervisors, most of whom have had both graduate study and teaching experience at Harvard. All are well acquainted with the work in the undergraduate courses and have been selected by the instructors as the most competent persons available to assist students to meet their particular problems. . . . In the first fifteen weeks of 1939-40, 265 students have used the services of the Bureau. Of these, 155 have been referred to supervisors, while the remainder worked only with the Secretary of the Committee. Of the 155 students who needed special aid, 23 were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excerpts From Dean Hanford's Report | 2/7/1940 | See Source »

...other, that issue has already been decided. I love my country better than I love the Democratic Party." This kind of talk sounded very different from the Jim Farley who said of Franklin Roosevelt three years ago: "While the breath in my body lingers, I will try to assist him in all he does." From Washington came stories that Jim had been saying he-and not the President-would control New York's 1940 delegation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Farley's Forihgoing | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...over the North Atlantic coast were calling Captain Brown on the telephone. Captain Brown's story got better & better. Not only the stricken ship's radio operator but its captain had called for help. "They just shrieked there were 164 men aboard. . . . They said: 'Send assist ance immediately. We are sinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: CBS C Q D | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

Wrote the President: "There is without doubt in the United States a great desire ... to assist Finland to finance the purchase of agricultural surpluses and manufactured products, not including implements of war." But, he went on, there was also no desire for "the creation of precedents which might lead to large credits to nations in Europe. . . ." He therefore proposed that Congress increase the revolving fund of the Export-Import Bank, to enable it to finance exports (but not arms). He said that soon the Government would consider applications for loans in Scandinavia and South America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Sounding Trumpets | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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