Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, appreciate the self-sacrifice that prompts Lady Rhondda and her American "consoeurs" in their willingness to share the burdens of national life, but one may also feel that the benighted male is able to get into enough trouble without help. There are those who think that "Ma" Ferguson in public life was an unnecessary evil; there are those who do not feel that Mrs. Snyder was a benevolent influence in the home. The modern woman has shown herself to be man's equal in all types of proficiency, government and murder as well as channel swimming. Undoubtedly the feminists...
...best liked and most politic men of Oklahoma, Oilman Ray H. Collins, hastened from Manhattan to Tulsa last week to persuade all Oklahoma oil operators to restrict their daily production and so help stabilize their industry. A committee of operators, conferring in Manhattan under the guidance of President Walter C. Teagle of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, and President W. S. Parish of Humble Oil & Refining Co., had asked him to go on the difficult mission. They represented ownership of three-quarters of the Oklahoma wells and to that extent expected success for Emissary Collins...
...buildings, as a whole, are planned to further at every point the distinctive program which the School has adopted. There are a few large lecture rooms and a great many seminar rooms and offices. To help carry out the School's intention to forward graduate study and research, the library is planned for 250,000 volumes as contrasted with the 80,000 we now possess. The presence of the Sterling Memorial Library in the immediate vicinity of the School will aid in furthering research. The Yale Law Journal, which publishes much of the research done at Yale, will have commodious...
...Dayton, Ohio, a flat-bottomed boat which had seen service in the 1913 Dayton flood was put on exhibition with a sign: "THEY HELPED US IN 1913? LET'S HELP THEM...
...effective. . . . But there is no politi cal immorality in attempting to coerce a government by a general strike. [Barking his words] Governments exist to be coerced! . . . As for this bill?Hrr! ?it is a loud needle for the Communist gramophone. ... It will help the Communists to breed sedition, and gag a appeal to the better natures of everyone else...