Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Please raise your petition number to at least ten times that number. I can't help but feel that Nancy Smolling has not yet caught the true spirit of TIME. It has always appealed to the more spiritual side of my being and I forget the more superficial things like Style when I think of TIME and besides I think it would be a selfish column because the men subscribers certainly would not enjoy it and I feel so very keenly that TIME is for all who are interested in people and events and not just in themselves...
...service (political) appointees. In court, the teacher-clerks had sent for Mr. McAndrew to explain to the judge the nature of their duties. Mr. McAndrew had complied, saying, yes, the duties of teacher-clerks are predominantly educational. They assist the school principals in supervising classroom work; they interview parents, help with home work, aid discipline and even, when needed, teach classes. Their positions used to be filled by civil service clerks but the latter were removed in 1909 precisely because the positions called for persons trained in the teaching profession. Mr. McAndrew's testimony strenuously favored the teacher-clerks...
...editorial announcement inserted are certain credos: "American readers have proved . . . their absorbing interest in records of success from all phases of life. ... In a country where preferment awaits those who help themselves, a record of success becomes a lesson in opportunity. . . . There lies behind the striving of each winner a story that contains both interest and inspiration. This magazine will devote itself to discovering the thrills and the lessons in these life stories...
...your desires." Thirteen. Twelve Jugoslav military planes flew from Belgrade toward Prague. Thirteen started. The unlucky one fell on a glacier in the Vorarberg sector of the Rhaetian Alps. Alpine guides found the pilot with his legs broken but alive. The observer, Colonel Petrovich, froze to death searching help...
...Pullman a girl awoke with a scream, rolled over with a moan, exclaiming, "I'm shot!" She was Miss Florence M. Anderson, Los Angeles schoolteacher, returning home from a summer course at the National University, Mexico City. Her friend, Miss Louise Rider, also of Los Angeles, summoned help and administered first aid. It was found that Miss Anderson had been shot in the left side toward the back, the slug piercing her intestines...