Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Owing to the natural dangers of the business, student baby sitters are allowed a certain amount of choice. Holl keeps a record of his sitter's preferences as to age, sex, and intensity of recreational activity of their charges. A man who likes to help older children with arithmetic can certainly do so if he wants. An especially talented diaper man likewise has plenty of chance to exercise his talents...
Francisco France is trying very hard to work his country into the brand-new North Atlantic alliance. This is not particularly surprising, for Spain, which so far has received no ERP help, is in worse economic shape than any country in Europe. Franco must receive U. S. aid if his government is to survive; he needs an estimated $700,000,000 to keep the Spanish economy from going bust. His industry is near-bankrupt, railway system wrecked, food-production cut to a starvation level. Thirty-one percent of the total national revenue supports his armed forces...
Although tutorial is the best answer to the College's needs, well-run sections and "advisory functioning ideally" can also help. However, the Committee charges that sections too often degenerate into "miniature lectures or policing sessions," and states that unless students and teachers take a lively interest in the advising system, "it must fail miserably in accomplishing anything beyond what a trained secretary could...
...flown down. There were no mutes for the trumpets; he had to borrow felt hats to be used instead. The Casino's rosy-faced Artistic Director Georges Mockers, after being sent to find the automobile horns prescribed by Gershwin for his An American in Paris, couldn't help sighing: "Ah, ces Americains! What next...
Dean Keppel of the Education School, announcing the appointments, explained that the eventual goal of the new project is to help schools understand the needs, resources, and ideals, of the children placed in their care...