Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Could a political spectrograph of the U. S. be made to help the man-in-the-street classify his more prominent fellow citizens as to political color, from the "true Blue" of J. P. Morgan to the bright "Red" of the late Sacco & Vanzetti...
Harry F. Sinclair? once a druggist's lazy son in Independence, Kan., who one day shot himself in the foot while out hunting and from the accident insurance money built up an oil fortune big enough for him to help back the late Federal Baseball League (1915), to play with his Rancocas stables (including World's Champion Horse Zev) and to be offered (so the story goes)' the throne of Albania?fleshy but firm, quiet but quick-eyed, Harry P. Sinclair sat erect and whispered incessantly with his counsel...
Enlisting the help of her brother, Prince Nicholas, the tale goes on, Ileana met her sweetheart at the coast and the two set out in an open motor boat for Constantinople, but, wrecked, were rescued by a German boat. For this episode Paius was arrested...
Businessmen who knew that a letter does cost 14.972 cents were the most insistent that their executives and office help attend the 24th yearly National Business Show, which began last week in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. The place was crowded with men and women studying devices that could save them labor, seconds and mills...
...books, annotated of written by the poet, to the library, writing at about the same time, "I much fear you will be disappointed in the quality of the Coleridge items, but shall be a very happy person indeed were any of this material to prove of the smallest help to Professor Lowes in his forthcoming book." This "forth-coming book" was the recently published Road to Xanadu. And indeed, in writing it, Professor Lowes made great use of the books received from Norton Perkins...