Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THEM!"-Bessie M. O'Neil, Springfield, Mass. Might any or all of these slogans help the Democrats unhorse the Republicans in 1928? The slogan committee of the Woman's National Democratic Club (Washington, D. C.), hoped so. They were announced last week as the best of 800 slogans the committee obtained in its nationwide slogan-motto-jingle-limerick-rhyme con-contest (TIME, Sept. 26). The committee paid $100, $50 and $25 for the above prizewinners, as promised. The Mrs. Hubbard who won first prize is First Vice-President of the Woman's National Democratic Club...
...work, B. J. Snyder has been an invaluable help; he is more than making good. Snyder collected domestic animals from the vicinity of Boston, brought them over to the school and is breeding good stock there...
...students in preparation for the mid year examinations, the organization this year will give assistance on the work of the Reading Period. The number of men who have signified their intentions of taking part in the work is much larger than last year, and they have already begun to help all those who have applied...
...Robin Hood theme has been picked up again by the movies. Witness "Rose of the Golden West" and the current Metropolitan attraction, Richard Dix in "The Gay Defender". Be it remarked immediately that they did these things better with the help of Mary Pickford's husband. Certainly there are enough important Latins in Hollywood to keep Mr. Dix, the American of them all, out of slit Spanish trousers and Mexican fandangos. He is pre-eminently a home boy and should be discouraged in any more attempts to hit for Fairbanks. The film as casual amusement is pleasing enough. Thelma Todd...
...material of the course is officially listed as "Human Evolution", and covers the descent of man and his distribution over the earth's surface. There is no doubt that Professor Hooton is a very eminent anthropologist, but when taking the course one cannot help having the feeling that he is not particularly interested in the work in question. With this attitude in evidence on the professorial side, a show of wild enthusiasm on the part of the members of the course is hardly to be expected. In short, it is a half course covering what could be a distinctly interesting...