Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really moved by your help," writes Janina Grzankowska, a Polish medical student. "I only wish I could show you clearly what your dollars mean here in milk, potatoes, fats." After describing post-war university life, she adds, "but we hold to our resolution to become worthy successors of those who have died with Poland's name on their lips...
...letter transmitted by American military authorities and received here by E. F. Bruck, professor of Rector Wolfgang Kunkel writes that outside assistance can help avoid "distress and embitterment" and "dispair of the world and democratic ideals of which they are being told so much...
Cambridge's minor crime wave struck home yesterday, when the Harvard Radio Network found approximately $55 missing from its offices. Both University and city police have been called in to help unwrangle the theft...
...three schools, the Harlem Project set up a mental hygiene clinic for delinquents, boys' clubs and summer camps. It got after-hours jobs for the older boys. It organized child-psychology courses for parents and teachers. It negotiated truces between gangs. It investigated homes and health, gave psychiatric help to kids who needed it. Almost every truant and delinquent turned out to need such help...
...mighty nation. That lively clucking and scrabbling in the feedboxes is the fanfare which announces that two plump bestsellers have just been hatched. Soon, very soon, both fledglings will spread their contracts, and, obeying some profound migratory instinct, fly away to Hollywood. Meanwhile, their present owners will help these chicks to take their first, stumbling steps toward the jackpot...