Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admit that the "Prevention of crime and delinquency..is the surest way of creating social stability" and that "the intelligent have shown a wordy, but not ineffective interest in these matters", you offer no adverse criticism except general mudslinging. Picking on a statement of one who is attempting to help and really serve his fellow men, in which he states that such service is not only of value judged by the service rendered, but also by what the individual himself gets out of it, you call all such service "hypocrisy and business charlatanism"! What could be further from hypocrisy when...
...entirely new phase of the athletic situation. If this is true, and who but a federal judge would doubt it, he is going to absurd lengths to put the idea over. Anyone who can shed new light on athletics has little need for fifty proven strong men to help him. He should be writing for the newspapers. Single handed he could command a larger sum for a single Sunday appearance than his whole stage full of helpers will attract in a winter. The daily Sartores Resarti of the sport situation support unnumbered experts; a new phase of athletics would...
...authority for calling them together for conferences. Second, it would serve as an information bureau to aid in the forming of new clubs, and give advice as to methods of finance and operation. Third, it would serve as a governing body for intercollegiate competition, and would help to spread interest in aviation among the colleges. In general, it would the intercollegiate aeronautics together into a compact form with a permanent organization...
Assistant Professor W. J. Luyten has just arrived in South Africa to stay for a year and to help the superintendent, J. S. Paraskevopoulos, in the foundation of the new establishment...
...better prepared than Hoover for the job seems to me to ignore their respective records. To say that Smith expresses a greater desire for action than Hoover on certain national issues seems to me to confuse a loud voice with a quieter attitude. Their familiarity with undergraduate "bull" should help them to avoid this mistake. With the statement that Smith, if elected, will arouse the citizens of the United States, I agree...