Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horizon. For many years graduate students, as well as undergraduates outside the Houses, have had an amorphous existence. In spite of President Conant's interest in the project, no dining hall was forthcoming; and hopes for a social center were even more illusory. Then, with no sign of help from above, a group of students took matters into their own hands; and now tat their scheme is nearing success, the least that the University can do is to lend a helping hand...
...eight yard off-tackle slash at the crucial moment, together with the help from heaven that all good Deacons have a right to expect, won the all important Lowell game for Kirkland, 7-0, yesterday afternoon, thus brushing aside the Deacons' most formidable opponent for the House grid title. In the other Soldiers Field encounter, a favored Adams eleven was cut down by last place Leverett...
...people of Andalusia, in Southern Spain, who voted Leftist when Spain had elections, have usually been cool toward the Italian "volunteers" brought in by tens of thousands to help Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco in Spain's civil war. Last week, as some 12,000 Italian infantrymen prepared to return to Italy in a "token" withdrawal of Italian troops, controlled Rightist newspapers and spokesmen whooped up enthusiasm to show Rightist Spain's official gratitude to Fascist Italy...
Chief purpose of any direction finder in transport flying is not alone to locate ground points but to help determine the plane's position in flight. After a ground station is tuned in on the ship's radio receiver in this new Sperry-RCA apparatus, a loop antenna suspended beneath the plane rotates automatically until it is at right angles to the source of the signal, registering the bearing on the dial. Where two or more such bearings intersect is approximately the plane's position...
...otherwise fight the Holding Company Act, President Roosevelt and Chairman Douglas at once issued huzzas. The President said that E.B. & S.'s action was a fine example of the cooperation the White House "spokesman" requested in his "sabre-rattling" discourse fortnight ago and would certainly 'help business generally. What was more, said Mr. Roosevelt, the utility industry would discover that the so-called "death sentence" was really a health sentence and would revitalize the industry (see p. 9). Said Mr. Douglas: "When the legal, business, banking and operating brains of the utility industry decide to act, it really...