Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the most helpful nonadministrative group connected with the educative process on the college campus today are the fraternities. By fostering school spirit, extracurricular activities and social functions, they help develop latent qualities of leadership and help broaden students' personalities...
Double Dose. "You have a chance," he cried, "to help decide whether or not Harry Truman is going to be the future President of the United States. He is a man totally unfitted for the position. His principles are elastic and he is careless with the truth. He has no special knowledge on any subject and he is a malignant, scheming sort of an individual who is dangerous not only to the United Mine Workers, but dangerous to the United States of America...
...they gathered for the 69th annual conference of the British Conservative Party in Llandudno (pronounced: hlandidno), Wales. It was the largest Conservative conference ever held, and the first which opened with a religious service. An elderly delegate said: "We do well to thank God, and to pray for His help in the future." It was the first time since the Tories' great defeat in 1945 that the gloom which encircled them showed signs of lifting...
...Maurice Thorez, however, was maneuvering so that he could take full advantage of an offer from Herriot & Co. whenever they were willing to pay his price. His present tactics called for grèves tournantes-revolving strikes -which hit one industry after another, creating enough damage to offset ECA help to France but limited enough to hold the door open to overtures from Herriot...
...cabinet. Cynical Japanese newsmen drew up and published a roster of their own, made up entirely of high officials now held in Kosuge prison. Just then, police announced the latest Showa Denko arrest: Kosuge's Warden Ito was charged with accepting bribes from his Oh-mono to help them communicate with their colleagues still outside...