Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What I like particularly about chopping wood is that this is not only a personal pleasure to me but that I am able to help Doom's poor by sending the results of my chopping to them...
...great U. S. friend of small and backward peoples is Charles Richard Crane. Quite a trifle of his money went to help Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk found the new state of Czechoslovakia...
GIRL 19, suffering from RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS. One hope of cure?warm climate now. Will some good Samaritan offer financial help to make this possible? Mother (widow) earnestly appeals. ? Write Box T.1219, The Times, E.G.4...
...ordinary American is not rich. . . . Salary or income may be larger than that of his opposite in England, but his expenses are bigger; and that is why, were he living in England, his wife could have one servant, possibly two of them. . . . Certainly her children are a help to her very soon. . . . By the time he [an American boy] is seven years old he is a handy man in the house, with chores to do, which he really does. Then take the little girls. . . . At the age when her little English cousin is having her hands washed...
...Throughout the evening the other colleges, Stoughton and Massachusetts were in utmost danger. They caught fire numerous times, and could not have been saved by all the help that the town could afford, had it not been for the assistance of the Gentlemen of the General Court. His Excellency the Governor, who is spite of the rigor of the weather was most active in exerting himself in supplying the town engines with water which had to be fetched from a distance, the two college pumps being then rendered useless...