Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Books been a help or a hindrance in bringing worldly success? Apparently, the 127 had found them to be neither. But St. John's felt reassured on one point: there seemed to be no regrets. No one indicated that if he had it to do all over he would not start right in with Homer, happily read on up through Bertrand Russell again...
...help make the cloud, a daily quota of 100 tons of metallic oxides goes up the flue. Factory smokestacks, city dumps, backyard trash fires, automobile exhausts and even coffee roasters unite in sending up an immense mess of aerial garbage-estimated altogether at 2,000 to 5,000 tons...
...recent winter circuit, Middlecoff began burning up the links at Harlingen, Tex., where he won the Rio Grande Valley Open. He was second at St. Petersburg, but won the Miami Four-ball (with help from Partner Jim Ferrier) and the Jacksonville Open...
...oldest (est. 1809). Henry Clay and Daniel Webster were once depositors. In the War of 1812, the cashier cagily sneaked the bank's funds out of town the day the British captured the city. Later the bank lent the empty U.S. Treasury $50,000 to help rebuild the White House, which had been burned by the redcoats...
Last week, with the help of fat military contracts, Glenn L. Martin Co. got out of the red for the first time in two years (1948 loss: $16.7 million). President Martin told stockholders at the annual meeting that first-quarter profits were $402,643, contrasted with a net loss of $480,000 in the same quarter last year...