Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what it is like. They, sooner than others, must fight it. Blunt professionals, they demand serviceable instruments with which to do their duty when it becomes necessary. Permanent public servants, their philosophy is at bottom the working philosophy of the U. S. Navy, no matter how Congresses and Administrations help or hinder its expression...
Rector William G. Thayer of St. Mark's: "I have confidence that the mod ern schoolboy is going to be a real help in making things better...
...escape when we meet an 18,000 ton cruiser and were examined by her for two hours. I was a Norwegian captain, but the name of my ship was wrong. It was my hardest examination, and it took a bottle of 100-year-old brandy to help me pass...
...destruction. The people were used as tools in a class struggle and misled by various fallacious theories. In order to place the party on a firm foundation, this policy of destruction must be changed to one of construction and the class struggle must be replaced by mutual help and co-operation...
...Second Act. Nina, not now so normal, has tried to dodge her grief with martyrdom. Believing she must help war cripples to happiness she lives with them. Dr. Ned Darrell, unconsciously in love with her, arranges to have her marry Sam Evans, genial weakling, to afford her anchorage. Not loving Sam she consents, thinking (still the martyr) she can beautify his life and ease her own sorrow with babies...