Word: helping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took the water, 42 naval officers were graduated from the Navy's special submarine school at New London, Conn., to help man this growing arm of national defense...
...night last March when, as she and Franklin set out to be married, they were attacked by the defendants. She testified: "Connie yelled out 'Till, Till, they're akillin' me!' Then Joe White slammed a big rock on his haid. I couldn't help him none because Greenway was adraggin' me into the bushes. Then Hester came and helped Greenway do what he was doin' to me. I went back later and seen Connie layin' in the road. He was daid." Later, she said, the attackers informed her that they had killed...
...absolutely certain Santa Claus is coming tomorrow morning." The businessmen took up a collection and decided thereafter always to take care of their poor neighbors for two weeks at Christmastime. They called themselves the Joshers Club and now, instead of community chestmen, beaming Joshers buttonhole the townsfolk to help Butte's 600 needy families. Chief Josher is J. T. Finlen, proprietor of the Finlen Hotel...
Said Dr. Lynch: "The Episcopalian Church is much more closely identified with Catholicism than with Protestantism, and every attempt to practice Church Unity with Protestants proves it. I cannot help feeling that the Anglo-Catholic party which wishes to drop the word 'Protestant' has not only all of the logic on its side, but all of the evidence, both historical and contemporary. Furthermore, every time the Episcopalian Church refuses to recognize the orders of a Protestant minister as equally valid with that of an Episcopalian priest, or refuses to permit a Protestant minister to officiate at its altars...
...want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics!" So exclaimed Sir James Hopwood Jeans, eminent British mathematician, for the benefit of struggling scholars. But he did not mean the remark literally. It was a sentence he had thought up to help them remember pi (the quotient of diameter into circumference) carried out to the 14th decimal (3.14159265358979) by the number of letters in each word...