Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unexpected products held the spotlight. Instead of a storm about corn, fresh tomatoes caused a furore. Mexican production was described as a menace. Italian growers were paying their hired help 43¢ a day compared to labor cost of 25 to 35¢ an hour...
...hope by parting with one of my most treasured possessions," said Miss Radclyffe Hall, "that I shall be able to inaugurate a sort of 'gift in kind' movement to help the miners...
...going to be a party, if I can help it, to anyone being married by Church service who has been divorced. "I am not going to make the word of God a blasphemous farce [by condoning divorce]. No man has a right to ask a bishop to be a party to any such disgusting and gross act of blasphemy. If you don't like it, go to a register office and say 'I will take you until you make life absolutely impossible, and then I will be done with you.' That is the honest thing...
...practical purposes. Specialization founded on this will lead in all probability to one of two things: intensive concentration on a small subject to the point of pedantry, or, more dangerous still, a mental confusion arising from insufficient absorption of background. Here the specialization becomes a hindrance rather than a help, a confinement rather than a liberation of the mind...
WILL someone HELP gentleman, 30, ex-service; no income: ill, severe neurasthenia; with cost of treatment??Write Box D.1761, The Times, E.C.4...