Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your intention. It was, therefore, very unfortunate indeed in referring to the death of Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith Drury, headmaster of St. Paul's School that you said he was "passionately loved, feared, hated by his pupils" [TIME, Feb. 28]. Yes, loved and feared as only boys can help but regard their teachers-but hated, never...
...gone forever. Government failure has been due, in the largest degree, to lack of trained officers and noncommissioned officers. Suspicious of the loyalty of the regular officers who joined them, led by left-wing writers, parlor pinks and Communist tub thumpers, the Government has been unable, even with considerable help from competent foreign advisers, after a year and one half of war, to develop an army capable of fighting on equal terms with Franco's men. Franco's battles have been fought and won with numerical inferiority in every case. The Government superiority of manpower has been nullified...
...tracts in her neck in the hope that they would grow together normally. Such an operation, though not unique, is rare. Stocky, bespectacled Dr. Frank Randall Teachenor, one of the most brilliant neurological surgeons in the Midwest, had never before performed it. He warned Sylva that although it might help her, it might make her worse or even cause her death. Sylva decided to take the chance. Her mother tried to dissuade her, but the girl persisted in her determination...
...learn to walk after a fashion, but their movements are disordered and uncontrolled. They are often mistakenly considered feebleminded, although the intellectual centres of the brain are intact and the sufferers may be intelligent. Best hope of improvement for such persons is in patient self-education and enlightened help from others. One of the most eminent spastic paralytics in the U. S. is Dr. Earl Reinhold Carlson of Manhattan's Neurological Institute (TIME, May 30, 1932). Once a convulsive cripple, an orphan at 18, Earl Carlson conquered his handicap by dint of iron determination, plowed through college and medical...
Already he is getting ready to step into his spring role as tennis coach. According to Cowles, the games are not at all incompatible. "Most of my best tennis players have also played squash," he said recently. "If a player is fundamentally sound in both games, squash will help his tennis...