Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stating that Captain Bruce's ship was an experimental plane. That is not true. The experimental plane had been flown around here for several months. The ship that Captain Bruce was in was out of regular production, fully licensed by the Department of Commerce. . . . Aviation needs all the help a publication like TIME can give it. C. T. HUTCHINS Manager, Advertising Department The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Inc. Akron, Ohio. I find, on making a further check, that the regular Department of Commerce license has not been received but is expected shortly. The ship has met all the requirements...
...Number One? [looking at Mr. Baldwin] Yes, he's here. He is in great danger. They want to know if he is carrying a gun ? they say it is the most astounding case the Yard has ever had and had to call me in to help them...
...some organized lecture course is however, no reason for his ignoring them completely. Inevitably some of them will have an effect on his future life and as a result should call forth a vital interest on his part. If the New York Times contest can help to stimulate this interest, it is fulfilling a role which the college cannot adequately handle and its existence is fully justified...
...never overjoyously welcomed by the working men; but at first the employers hailed it as favorable to them. Now, however, they also are beginning to feel its sternness. Probably it is more tolerated than approved today. And especially it is endured because the people believe it will help make Italy great and able to assert herself. Here is the difference between the nationalism of Mussolini and that of Matzini. The latter preached for a united Italy, that she might contribute towards Europe. But when unity was finally achieved, these illusions of recognition were shattered...
...hardly blame the President and Fellows of Harvard College for keeping their little secret about Memorial Hall as long as they did. In fact one can't help liking them for this exhibition of propriety even though the dean's office must have been a little astonished to find a little while ago that Memorial would not be available for holding the divisional examinations next week. Good old New England reserve and modesty which objects to boasting about the most hospitable acts is not to be blamed for reticence in a case like this. Generosity loses half its fine flavor...