Word: helpers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made famous: dean of men at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, Ill), Graduate of Illinois (1890), onetime professor of rhetoric, onetime acting dean of the College of Literature & Arts, he became in 1909 the first U.S. dean of men: chastener of delinquents, soother of parents, information bureau, helper of the needy, social and moral adviser. A year ago he reached 67, age limit for university officials, was asked to stay on until the University's new president, Harry Woodburn Chase, was installed. Also, they wished him to break in his successor, Fred H. Turner. This April he announced...
...Edison's private secretary Meadowcroft. He said that Mr. Edison liked our paper very much. We also had a letter from the Governor of our territory, George A. Parks. I was especially glad to get the letter from Edison's Laboratories as I would rather be a helper of Edison than anything else in the world...
...nationalists did not ban it for home consumption as they did Carl Laemmle's picture. The framework is the friendship of four German soldiers and their varying fates. Best sequences: the soldier who goes home to find that his wife has deceived him with the butcher's helper...
...mule would be loaded: a tent for the preparation of the "wet plates" (which were sensitized in the tent and put, dripping, into the camera); vats for the chemical solutions; a tripod which would support a piano box: a camera nearly as large as a piano box: a helper...
Greyhound Lines began by losing money, and Wickman sent Orville Swan Caesar to build it up. Once a mechanic's helper, Mr. Caesar entered the bus business by operating a taxi fleet in Superior, Wis., then a small stage line which was later bought by Northland Transportation. He made Greyhound Lines prosper, and as a result now, at the age of 37, is U. S. bus tycoon, President of a corporation with an estimated investment of $16,000,000 and profits (last year), of $1,549,000. He rarely leaves motors and roads to putter on his yacht...