Word: helpers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quickly learning that "nobody wanted to be bothered with the problems of others," Orphan Victor Heiser became a plumber's helper, later a carpenter, finally went to college on the salvage of his father's property, finished a four-year medi-cal course in three years. While still an interne, on a vacation in Washington, he took the examination for entrance into the Marine Hospital Service. With no preparation, he was one of three selected from 30 candidates, lost 20 Ib. during the two-week grilling, got by partially on the strength of his knowledge, partially...
Subbayah crawled in between the tent supports, lay down beside a draped stick set up in the ground. At the base of the stick he seated, with much show of tenderness, a malevolent-looking little doll. A helper hung clothtent-walls around Subbayah. Few minutes later the walls were stripped away. There was Subbayah, hanging shelflike to the top of the draped stick...
George Leonard Berry got off to a slow start in life. Tennessee-born son of a Civil War captain, he was orphaned at 7, knocked about as odd-job boy and printer's helper until he was 21, never got to college. He was a Spanish War private, a World War major of engineers, helped organize the American Legion. At 53 he is not only the Southeast's biggest farmer (30,000 acres) but also, since 1907, president of the International Pressmen and Assistants Union and founder-owner of the nation's biggest color label-printing plant...
...more it sat in judgment on the question of whether much of the New Deal is legal or illegal. The case arose over a bale of cotton numbered 407784. One night a year ago at Clarksdale in Coahoma County, Miss., Fred Hastings allegedly asked Jed B. Earner, a Negro helper, to steal cotton from the warehouse of Federal Compress & Warehouse Co. Black Jed quietly rolled three bales of cotton, one of them No. 407784, out of the warehouse. He confessed that for these services he received...
...Connell's side of the scales of medical opinion, however, was the history of insulin, cure for diabetes, discovered by young Dr. Frederick Grant Banting and his student helper, Charles Herbert Best, at Toronto, 100 miles from Kingston, despite the impatience of their Uni-versity of Toronto superiors. Dr. Connell also had an assistant, Bertram J. Hols-grove, 31, whose initial job had been to wash test tubes and dishes. The pair regularly worked 14 to 16 hours daily. Dr. Connell abandoned his profitable eye-ear-nose-&-throat practice. Some apostolic members of Queen's University medical faculty...