Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gatherings of farmers are not a little tired of hearing discussions of farm relief." ¶ Apropos President Coolidge's dutiful diligence in the closing months of his administration, Political Pundit Mark Sullivan of the arch-Republican New York Herald-Tribune ventured a respectful semi-prophecy: ". . . One cannot help feeling it is within possibility that Mr. Coolidge's high regard for his office may result, sometime before he retires, in something that may have the mood of George Washington's Farewell Address...
Cabinet members must soon report on their year's work. Last week, busy with his report, Secretary of War Davis could not help brimming over about one of his subsidiary concerns, the Inland Waterways Corp. This Federal company operates barge lines on the Warrior River (Alabama) and on upper and lower reaches, of the Mississippi. It showed a $277,782 net income for nine 1928 months, compared to $45,507 at the same time last year...
...tender but lovely hope. He is our symbol, and just because we are a young country and because of our struggles and griefs, what sweeter symbol could we have than a little innocent child, around whom one and all, great and small, rich and poor, unite to guide and help and protect-little Mihai, our King...
...students with an unusual amount of initiative and intellectual curiosity ever break the chain that leads them either directly into a job or to the ministrations of a local academy of higher learning. Any measures towards removing the handicaps in the path of this type of candidate will both help to remove an unfair disadvantage and secure for the college desirable members...
...Westminster, the King retired to the Robing Room where with help of chamberlains he donned "the ermine, the purple and the crown." Then he and Queen Mary entered the great Gothic hall of the House of Lords...