Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...youth; that we like to throw away good money in support of an economic philosophy which we are certain will lead to England's and our own loss; that we like the hatred of the rest of the world because we are fortunate enough to be able to help other nations out of their difficulties; that we are proud of the destructive characteristics of the atomic bomb. . . . The fact that our acts redound to our advantage at times is hardly a just excuse for vilification...
Even after an excellent, but brittle project had been shattered into a zillion fragments, the job of scarping up the residue was badly hacked. Mr. Durant agreed to help the Council committee release a ton of wheat each week for shipment abroad, but demanded a mandate from the student body. This necessitated a poll. It was ready in five long weeks and promptly voted by a fourteen-man session of the Council. Hoping to get everything just right when speed was the important factor, the committee launched into a lengthy correspondence with Charles Lauckman. He returned a five question, sheet...
...Army, Princeton and Dartmouth play a football-type of game emphasizing bodily contact, speed and long boots. MacDonald decries brutish methods. "You can't win a ball game without controlling the ball," Mac says, "and booting the ball all over the field and banging into peaople doesn't help you get the ball into scoring position...
Curiously enough, N.S.A. was conceived in Europe. At the height of the war, a handful of exiled European students and scholars met in London. Seeking some machinery that would help insure peace, the laid the groundwork for an International Union of Students. The need for a nation-wide organization that would faithfully represent, students of this country in such an international unit resulted in N.S.A...
...dear friend," he says, "this trap is called life. . . . You must realize that you yourself can change nothing and that you must seek help. . . . And to live with this realization means to sacrifice something big for it. ... A man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something. . . . This is the law of human nature...