Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subterranean duty, a convulsion shook the galleries, a blast of air rushed up the shafts followed by a belch of hot, black smoke. The night men scrambled back for safety. Some were killed in the tunnels by falling roofs. Some bratticed themselves in offsets and telephoned for help. Then came the deadly "afterdamp" (carbon monoxide...
Queried he: "Can I help...
Jurado finished almost by himself. He stood beside the green while Sarazen and his great gallery came up. Sarazen putted and the ball dropped but it didn't help- he was two strokes behind. A minute later the people were carrying Hagen on their shoulders to the clubhouse where the Prince of Wales would give him the cup. Hastily Jurado handed in his own score, an 80 that put him in a tie with Barnes for fifth place, noticing as he passed the board that Hagen's total was 292, Sara-zen's 294, Archie Compston...
...arising from so-called 'outside activities'-a hard, close game calling on brain as well as body for all there is and then some; a stiff pull on the river and a lost race, and also that sympathy for the man supposed to be responsible, which will help carry on in after life as nothing else...
...early '90's, Mr. Rockefeller put his philanthropies on a wholesale scale. He had always been a devout Baptist, a Sunday school teacher since he was 20. When a comparatively poor man, in 1870, he gave $20,000 to help build the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church in Cleveland. His first huge gift was for a Baptist-affiliated institution of learning?the University of Chicago (founded 1892). He plunged into the giving business as systematically as he had into oil. He trained John D. Jr. to succeed him in both. And then, in 1911,** he entered the business of pleasure...