Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something New. Harry Truman was not ready for any serious political pronouncements. He dropped in at the press lounge several times, once to invite newsmen to take a swim with him. Someone asked if he would hold a press conference. "Not if I can help it," he declared promptly. When urged, he added: "Well, maybe, if you can think of some questions-and let me ask them." On his last visit, his Jeff Davis beard was gone. Bess Truman and Margaret were arriving that day, he explained...
Nerve center of the Key's efforts to help alumni today will be an information and message center which it has set up in Wadsworth House. There the group will keep a complete listing of all class dinners and other graduate events, with personnel on hand at all times to answer any questions...
...Harvard plays as they did against us last Saturday, they will defeat Yale or most any other good team we have seen. Yale's gallant try at Princeton last week will not help them this Saturday so Harvard might win handily unless they revert to one of their off days...
...explain and explain Art Valpey, but it doesn't seem to help you figure out how he walked into Cambridge unpublicized last spring and six months later had a team playing better football than anyone had thought it capable...
...Hall, as the good Yankees call it, burned in 1761. Peter Faneuil couldn't help rebuild it--he had been dead for 18 years--so the town raised money with a lottery. "Faneuil Hall Lottery Tickets" sold slowly, but eventually enough was raised to rebuild the market...