Word: helpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those powers entailed, he was in duty bound to state his ends clearly, hold himself in check in so far as those ends were not the manifest ends of the U. S. President Roosevelt's ends were known, definite, unneutral: by every means short of war,1) to help Great Britain and France win their war, and 2) to drive Adolf Hitler and Hitlerism from the world. He defined these aims well before World War II began, when many thought that in foretelling the Crisis and its ripening into war, he was whistling for the wind. More eloquent than...
...always gives me a horrible sinking feeling," she said, "when people come up to me and say 'Let them stew in their own juice; it isn't our war because we can't help suffering when all the rest of the world is suffering. We can't go scot-free. For people who think they can give one a terrible feeling of lack of real appreciation of the responsibility that lies on us, as one great nation at peace today, to be thinking seriously of what we can do to alleviate suffering for civilian populations...
...Income taxes were up 50%, the tax on tobacco up 20%, the beer tax up 14%. It was against the law to ask for a raise in salary or to demand extra pay for overtime. Every able-bodied resident of a German city was required to help pile up sandbags and to assist in building air-raid cellars...
...weeks he has been limiting the Suffolk County courthouse searching for someone to help him regain his fifty dollars, but it was only yesterday that he penetrated to the inner recesses of the office of the district attorney who immediately promised...
...public disgrace. But even then the shock was great enough to startle a protesting group of students in English into action, and to elicit a sharp defence of sound undergraduate teaching from Phi Beta Kappa. Now the issue seems to be pressing more heavily on students' minds. They cannot help noticing that many experienced tutors left last year for more serene fields. They know that for several of their teachers in middle group courses between elementary and advanced work, this is the last year at Harvard...