Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treatment. "In fact," Prall cries out, "Professor Sorokin rejects all art; the term means to him only 'subject matter' ". According to Prall, it would be absurd to accept Professor Sorokin's terms, and "as a guide to the fluctuations (of art) through the centuries a blind man is no help...
...seminars, however, are not for persons on the lookout for "snap" courses, stand-bys of the tutoring schools. For although one thesis is often the whole story, this one thesis is likely to occasion as much work as a stiff course with examinations. No outside source can help the student; he must produce his work by himself and by his own investigation. He may even have to resort to using a stack privilege in Widener to get his facts. But this task is worth the effort, since a thesis written is a thesis learned, while a course taken...
...adequate governmental aids to medicine, 27 members of the Medical School Faculty, including Charles S. Burwell, dean of the School, have joined with a committee representing 430 prominent physicians and surgeons in a drive for the supply of better medical aid for the poor and for governmental funds to help support medical study and research...
...behind the market whenever trading waxes fast & furious. Last week, for example, the ticker was several minutes late on four days. One mad day fortnight ago it fell 22 minutes behind, leaving traders groping in a mist of uncertainty. Last week the Stock Exchange fathered a new scheme to help keep traders up-to-the-minute on trading...
...book opens with a sort of prelude, in which Uncle Domitien, visiting the Moermesters' farm, makes an only half-serious promise to Karelina (then just in her teens and worried about life) to help her if things get too much for her. Before long she needs his assistance. She is married off to one Gomar t'Joens, and Gomar -a typical Walloon peasant, roundheaded, hard-drinking, tough-natured - soon proves to be a caution for cats. His small inn becomes a way station for tobacco-smuggling across the French border, and, as Gomar gets deeper into the racket...