Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choking fumes. Flames crackled in stairwells and hallways even before the 20 newborn babies in the nursery awakened and began to cry, before St. Anthony's 30 aged men & women pensioners, its 72 other patients (some in splints and traction devices) began to struggle and call for help...
...years ago, shrewd old (73) Boss Hague had confidently handed the mayor's office over to the man he had carefully trained for the job-his nephew, Frank Hague Eggers. But Eggers lacked his uncle's sure grip, and now needed the old man's help to get reelected. Boss Hague hurried home from "retirement" at Florida's race tracks. Last week he shouted at a Democratic rally: "I really wanted to rest . . . But I stated that if conditions changed I would be back . . . And I am back. I am moving in. You knew I would...
...Department also announced yesterday that it will give Chemistry 1, Elementary Chemistry, as a full course this summer to help pre-meds and those needing the course as a pre-requisite for Chem...
President Conant took the opposing view, claiming that public schools must have national help in the form of government subsidies. He added that the bill specifically provides against federal control over the schools...
...Wriston claimed that Washington is slowly drainig states' sovereignty and can't help meddling in education. He said the government has already recommended courses and textbooks, and quoted the Hoover report's claim that federal interference has weakened state education departments...