Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where the servant was worthy of his hire and where advantage was taken of every opportunity. He closed his speech on a note personal to himself-the inadequate salaries paid Canadian professors. He could not possibly carry on his own work and support his family, did not his relatives help him with money. Charles Stewart, Canadian Minister of the Interior, replied softly and noncommittally to Professor M'Lennan's exhortations, thanked him for the ideas, hoped that public opinion would rally behind such men and reward them according to their true worth. Some facts which dull Professor...
...Queen Marie, who, turning toward the coffin as it was lowered into the earth, apostrophized thus: "Great and good friend of my youth and of my riper years! As long as there is still breath in me, for all that I am worth I shall try with God's help to carry on and uphold King Ferdinand's and your great work. Amen...
...this situation Vickers Ltd. and Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. recently decided to help themselves by amalgamating their naval shipbuilding, armament and heavy and special steel business as a separate company. This new company the parent concerns will control jointly. Last week they had practically completed details of the new company's organization and exchange of stock. On Jan. 1, it begins to function...
Travel agencies justly emphasized the cultural values of voyage; might well have emphasized its benefits on mental health. Placid days, droning engines, cradling waves, roomy outlook?all these help to soothe troubled, taut spirits...
...Stuart finds nothing in the Chinese revolution that is not reasonable, for he says that a passionate nationalism is struggling to throw off the selfish rule of warlords, and that the important thing is to help Young China to keep faith in itself...