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Word: helpful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Will you add any other reason that you think of that will help explain why there is no more productive research on the part of holders of Ph.D. degrees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 11/26/1926 | See Source »

...young college graduate get into work for which he is totally unfitted, and in which he does not advance, but wastes the best years of his life, wondering why he does not get ahead in the race. It is to prevent such waste of time and energy, and to help the individual know himself, his abilities and limitations, and in the light of these find his proper place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW UNIVERSITY CLUB PLANS VOCATIONAL AID | 11/23/1926 | See Source »

...There is Secretary of the Treasury Mellon's general policy of using the surplus to help retire the national debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Surplus-Removal | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

Apples, Cider. In the country around Martinsburg, W. Va., this season's apple crop totals 1,000,000 barrels, but cannot be sold. Growers have set up apple stands and cider tubs in Martinsburg's public square where all comers may help themselves freely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business Notes, Nov. 22, 1926 | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...good as the best in the fabulously rich Indies. All manner of tropical products can be grown there--rubber, camphor, coffee, tea, cocoa, gutta-percha, cocoanuts. Of these we import each year enormous quantities, but only a very small percentage comes from the Philippines. If, therefore, Americans would help the Filipinos to develop their great resources, the benefit would be mutual. We need their products. The need our financing and technical skill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRY FOR PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE IS RAISED BY SCHEMING POLITICIANS, DEMONSTRATES ROOSEVELT | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

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