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Word: helpful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carried out diplomatically and efficiently, the policy will help to cure the services of one of their most serious ills. The Jim Crow policy of all the Armed Forces, plus the fact that many Negroes are, through no fault of their own, far below the educational standards for all but the most menial jobs, caused thousands of perfectly capable men to be lumped into miserable duties as stevedores and road-builders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Equality in the Forces | 4/27/1949 | See Source »

Walks, Errors Great Help...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bellboys Swamp Dunster, 10-5; Leverett Ties Eliot | 4/26/1949 | See Source »

...Dukes, and notably Peter Fernandez and Al Ramsen, give excellent performances. They do so well, in fact, that they could get along without any help from Pundit Pearson, who shows up again at the end to preach the moral. In the process, he almost pulls the teeth of a film that has a lot of bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...both Churchill and his new friend, Franklin Roosevelt, the issue was the same -to destroy Hitler. Churchill's task, beyond preparing to meet the onslaught of the Germans, was not, as he tells it, to win Roosevelt over, but to help and hurry him in winning the U.S. public over to their common view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Web & the Weaver | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...With the help of the best straight man in radio, Arnold Stang, Morgan manages to parlay his destructive parodies into an average of ten really excellent minutes of humor and twenty satisfactory ones every Sunday night...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: From the Pit | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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