Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was little satisfaction for Convict Sinclair in the knowledge that, by simultaneous decision of the Supreme Court, he was to have a friend in the jail with him-Manhattan's Henry Mason Day, the friend who had tried to help him in his first oil scandal trial and received a four-month sentence as a result...
...women have always had uses for foolish young men. The "use to which old Mrs. J. C. Powers, 65, of Macon, Ga., put her young men would have done credit to a medieval witch. A widow, she took in boarders. She advertised for a "willing young man" to help with the chores, drive her car. Six weeks ago one James Parks, 25, and one Earl Manchester 21, answered her notice. She hired them both. Parks was the more stupid of the two, Manchester the harder. She insured Parks's life for $7,000, with a double indemnity clause...
...shrewd purpose behind the gift. They are alarmed by growing competition with German universities. Since the War thousands of U. S. students seeking a continental education have gone to the Sorbonne. Lately, the German universities have been recovering prestige and U. S. tuition fees. Soon, unless the French portraits help prevent it, young U. S. scientists and philosophers will flock to Heidelberg, Gottingen, Leipzig, Berlin, as numerously as they did when Wilhelm was Der Kaiser and attending the Sorbonne was considered not the greatest of intellectual gestures...
Announcement of the raising, by the Association of Harvard Chemists, of a fund of over $7,000 to help endow the Department of Chemistry, was made last night by H. M. Chadwell, Ph.D. '24, Secretary-Treasurer of the Endowment Fund Committee of the Association. The money will be turned over to the University, to be used, for the present, in any way which the Department sees fit; later, it is expected that the fund will go to the benefit of the Chemistry divisional library...
...field, willing and anxious to advance the Green and Gold banner of baseball prestige as far as they are able to do so. They're clean players; they're young players; they're good players. What more can one ask? You who come to the games cannot help but enjoy them. Again we demand--What more...