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Word: helping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...particularly difficult or disliked undertaking, give more help than is needed. (Mother helped Junior lift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Orange Juice | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...alone if he needs no more help. (Junior pondered, put cup down again, appeared to forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Orange Juice | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Give increasing help, more specific directions. (Mother firmly showed Junior how to pick up cup, put it to his lips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Orange Juice | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...breakfast with these cryptic numerals above a report of the previous day's debate in Parliament, every good Londoner got the allusion. Britain's bungling, War-born Ministry of Information was still being lambasted in the House of Commons. And the Times head was a plea for help from baffled editors whose effort to get news from the front had been balked by official red tape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 999 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...young Greenwich Villager who let her hair flow to her shoulders when others chopped theirs off at the nape. Her unforgettable name, unconventional personality and well-educated way with words constituted a triple threat against critical judgment; and nothing that anybody could say for or against her work could help or hinder her being popularly acclaimed the champion U. S. poetess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Food for Light Thought | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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