Word: assists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recently proposed $300,000,000 program for Federal scholarships. Such a scheme, if administered correctly, might be immune to Federal control, and would hit directly at the problem of helping qualified men of low income families reach college. As proposed to Congress by the President, this plan would "assist capable youths who could not otherwise do so" to attend any institution of their choice that would admit them. Such a program, however, would only be as effective as the machinery set up for determining the intellectual qualifications and real financial need of the applicants...
...assist the beginning skiier, there are at least three types of slopes at every skiing resort. These are strangely named: the beginner's hill, the intermediate slopes, and the advanced trails. The philosophy behind these titles is one of the mysteries which have baffled sporting experts for years...
Miss Larsen succeeds Marilyn Coverley '52 who directed activities of the community service group during the fall term. Joanne Callery '52 was named to assist Miss Larsen as sub-chairman of the committee...
...almost like a defense counsel. He told how Fuchs had fled Nazi Germany, had been interned by Britain in the early part of the war. In 1942 Fuchs had been permitted to take the oath of British citizenship, Humphreys said, because "the very finest brains available were needed to assist in research, and such brains as Dr. Fuchs possessed were very rare indeed. He was known and proved to be one of the finest theoretical physicists living ... It is only fair to say that he always impressed his superiors as being a security-minded person...
Parents began writing to the newspapers. "I was told not to let my daughter study for more than 20 minutes at a time because it was frustrating," one mother complained."Thus-she and I went through three very distressing years together." To assist his rebuttal, the Denver Post-opened its pages to Kenneth Oberholtzer for a guest editorial explaining what the school system was trying to do. But next day, three more mothers stormed before the school board. "My sixth-grade daughter doesn't know a complete sentence," said one. "She doesn't know states. She doesn...