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Word: helps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assume, however, that this Sophomore has made business his aim. What is there for him to do three years ahead which will better help him to reach his goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First in Series of Articles on Alumni Placement Office Advises Upperclassmen to Register Soon | 1/11/1938 | See Source »

...Help, help," yelled Bernard D. Shea '41 as he danced around his room on the fifth floor of Thayer yesterday, trying desperately to shake off a tenacious squirrel which held his index finger firmly in its teeth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SQUIRREL, BITES YARDLING ON FIFTH FLOOR OF THAYER | 1/11/1938 | See Source »

First to answer Shea's frantic cries for help was David "Kentucky" Mitchell '41. Already famous as the ice cream champion of the University, Mitchell sprang to the rescue with a yell and a pair of gloves. A few minutes later he retired with his gloves torn to shreds and his hands lacerated in a dozen places, leaving the squirrel in complete triumph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SQUIRREL, BITES YARDLING ON FIFTH FLOOR OF THAYER | 1/11/1938 | See Source »

...month ago in the face of charges that members of his staff were ex-convicts, had issued the passports as a special kindness to a Mr. A, who had forwarded the applications as a political favor to a Mr. B, who obliged a Mr. C who had wanted to help his old crony Mr. D. At week's end, Mr. D was embarrassing his friends' friend, Albert Marinelli. by remaining in hiding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 10, 1938 | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

Tammany's erstwhile strength lay in its ability to furnish services which the government, inhibited by the folklore of the times, could not provide. An organization called "Tammany" could help the poor by giving food-baskets, clothing, coal and jobs, when such help from an organization called "government" might have regimented the people, sapped their vigor, and paved the way for Socialism. But under Roosevelt and LaGuardia the government by providing relief from the City Hall made unnecessary the exhorbitant tax which New Yorkers paid when this service emanated from the Wigwam. Good government is now preferred to Tammany misrule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE JUDGE OR THE TIGER | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

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