Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decision of the Cercle Francais to carry on entirely without the help of professional coaches or actors, prompted though it may have been by unpublished practical considerations, follows satisfactorily the tendency on the part of undergraduate activities toward a purer amateurism. Such technical guidance as may be necessary is amply provided for in the participation of a few experienced graduate students interested enough to offer the value of their knowledge in exchange for a return intrinsic in the activities themselves. The consequent removal of an authority made fearsome by its measurement in dollars and cents injects a healthy consciousness...
When Dr. Samuel Johnson compiled his great Dictionary, he was nagged, hounded by printer's devils. "The great" offered no help; alone he struggled, published...
...Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, 46, was brought from England by George Eastman, whose Eastman Kodak Co. dominates the world's photography industry because Mr. Eastman at the very beginning of his business career went to scientists for help. Dr. Mees' large Eastman staff has made purely scientific research into the chemistry of colloids (gelatine, cellulose, rubber, etc.), which industry is not yet using as extensively as it might...
Into the boiling-pot, traders poured facts, reports, rumors. Among them: ¶ The Brothers Fisher of Detroit, owning more common stocks than any other U. S. group, will form a billion-dollar investment trust to hold their securities. In Manhattan, the mighty Bankers Trust Co. will help finance the holding company. ¶ Alfred Emanuel Smith, vacationing in the South (see p. 9), has agreed to head the $50,000,000 bank now being organized by John Jacob Raskob and many another Manhattan capitalist...
Pacific Western Oil Co.: Fifteen million five hundred thousand dollars 15-year debentures; to help purchase California oil properties of Petroleum Securities Co. (Edward L. Doheny) covering 40,000 acres, valued at 43 million dollars; Blyth, Witter & Co., J. & W. Seligman & Co.; counsel: Sullivan and Cromwell, Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine & Wood (Manhattan) Loeb, Walker & Loeb (Los Angeles...