Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge of the project to think about ways of continuing and developing even further student interest in their plan. Perhaps the best way to gain adherents for the scheme would be the formation of an undergraduate committee to parallel the Faculty Committee. This would mean that undergraduates would help to bear the burden of recruiting men to do the reading and take the examinations, a task that is ever so much easier for a student, a fellow participant in the examinations, than for those who administer the reading and questions, whose enthusiasm might by unthinking people be considered biased...
...situation that exists in Champaign today is indescribably bad, getting worse every day. Every resident of Champaign must help in this drive. Prostitution cannot survive if the citizens show they will not tolerate...
...there in de yard-come from God. It's de word in Jesus speakin' his mind in my mind. I mus' be one of his 'ciples. Dese here is mirkels I can do. Cain't nobody do dese but me. I cain't help carvin' I jes' does it. It's like when you're leavin' here you're goin' home. Well, I know I'm goin' to carve. Jesus has planted the seed of carvin' in me." Curiously, Sculptor Edmondson seldom goes...
From this early section the Journal jumps to 1832, when Delacroix accompanied a French diplomatic mission to Morocco. His notes on the most vivid adventure of his life are clipped, wholly objective, brilliantly businesslike, set down only to help him remember details of what he saw. Some of them are like a modern Imagist poem or a sketch for a cinema continuity: "The entrance to the castle: The Guardsmen in the court, the faÇade, the lane between two walls. At the end, under a sort of vault, men seated, making a brown silhouette against...
...Hamburg in the middle of the 19th Century. There were five sons. Felix, Paul, Max and Fritz grew up to be bankers, Aby became a famed art historian. Felix followed Paul to the U. S. and into Kuhn, Loeb & Co., stayed with the company after Paul left to help start the Federal Reserve System. But Felix was less interested in banking than in charity & world Jewry...