Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four scientists agreed last night that laboratory research can help man discover "natural" social laws, in the third session of the Law School Forum's symposium on "Values for Modern Man" in Langdell Courtroom...
...hesitates to criticize a poll which was prepared over the course of two months with the help of the Social Relations Department (and corrected with its IBM machine). There can be little doubt, however, that the Council's recent Food Poll was poor. It asked the wrong questions right...
Moffett testified that when he went to Washington on his mission in 1941, he persuaded F.D.R. to help Aramco in its troubles with Ibn Saud. Moffett introduced a 1941 memo from President Roosevelt to Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones, which said: "Will you tell the British I hope they can take care of the King of Saudi Arabia-this is a little far afield...
Telephones. American Telephone & Telegraph Co., which already holds the record for the largest corporate securities offering ($357 million), will better its mark. It planned a new bond issue of about $391 million, to be dated June 20. A.T. & T. will use the cash to help finance its $2 billion expansion program...
...help tell this somber story, Paramount has used the services of a good British director, Compton Bennett (The Seventh Veil), a charming, able British star, Miss Calvert, and some competent British supporting players. The result is nonetheless a poor counterfeit of the genuine product. My Own True Love lacks the virtues of the best British movies (subtle human detail, glints of gentle humor, authentic backgrounds), but it has the faults of being talky, stodgy and intolerably slow...