Word: assists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Right Side Up. Some 1,200 students, whom Bob Sr. fondly calls his "Preacher Boys," are studying for the ministry. On school weekends and during the summers, they pour off the campus to bring converts to the sawdust aisle. At churches where they assist, they often make pastors uneasy with their fervent preaching...
...Dewey, the philosopher can only assist at the birth of ideas, shaping values as they come along to meet the needs of the present. He may take hints from the past, but the only real test of an ideal is how it can be expected to work out in the future. Thus, for Experimentalist Dewey and his followers, action became a sort of giant laboratory, where values could be run through a series of streamlined tests. "The method we term 'scientific,' " said he, "forms for the modern man . . . the sole dependable means for disclosing the realities of existence...
...puny boy weighing seven pounds." "Goddam it," he said, "the next generation of Fishers is goin' to be squirrels." His son, Thurber's grandfather, was hardly that. He showed his independence by having all his teeth capped with gold and, in his 60s, swallowing beach sand to "assist the integrity of the intestinal track...
...H.A.A. yesterday announcer the managers for next year's crew Those sophomores chosen were for the Varsity, Nick Coolidge and for the Varsity 150, George Langdon. They will serve as assistant manager for the 1953 season and then be head managers for the following year. It their new positions they will assist the head manager in making arrangements for crew trips, and also drive the coach's launch...
...which was one of the initial causes of British-Boer hostility. Although the Boer War may have been an act of imperialism, the conquest of the Boers has been described as the most magnanimous in history. In addition, the United Party, which has tried to assist the natives, is not "British-dominated," but contains Boer elements, including its leader, Mr. Strauss. While we cannot but deplore the racism in South Africa, we must also realize the difficult situation in which, the white population finds itself; this might be compared, in some ways, to American colonial times, when Indians outnumbered settlers...