Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jumpers than any other spot in the world, little Birger Ruud won his first championship when he was seven years old. Since ski jumping is a matter of confidence and body control, Birger Ruud, like all Kongsberg children, supplemented winter jumping with summertime diving to keep in trim and help develop good technique. The Ruuds have a younger brother, Asbjorn, 18. who has already outjumped Birger. This is Birger's second visit to the U. S. and this trip is his honeymoon. When asked if he can speak English, his answer is "a little." Those two words are practically...
...four scientists were dangerously drifting on their "'station," a floe which was in constant danger of breaking up (TIME, Feb. 14). For nine months, as they were carried by sea currents southward from the Pole, they had made observations in Arctic meteorology, oceanography, magnetology and marine biology. To help with the rescue, the semirigid dirigible V6 started out from Moscow. To Leningrad and beyond, the flight was uneventful. In the mountainous Kandalaksha region near the White Sea, a heavy snowstorm enveloped the airship. Radio communication stopped. Searching parties found the wreckage after a 24-hour hunt. Thirteen...
...minutes to say no. Said Mile Boulanger: "I had nothing to offer him. He was already quite well known when he came to my house, and I suggested that he was doing all right and should continue. I told him what I could teach him wouldn't help him much . . . and he agreed. Never have I regretted the outcome. He died famous...
What is to be done? Well, there are many elements in the recovery program but all are directed toward a better balance of prices. The Farm Act, the Housing Act and expanding relief ought to help...
What he had given them, to all appearances, was the Administration's rounded view on prices. As such its chief significance was 1) that the Administration might use it as a reference point for future policy, 2) that it might help to resolve public bewilderment caused by conflicting statements and acts of the President and his Cabinet...