Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course Jim Farley's grudge against McNutt is rooted in intraparty politics, but my hair is enough like Farley's to help me understand that the grudge is fertilized by a hopeless envy of a head of hair like that...
...financial measures could better the situation. Before they had talked for many hours, they had drafted an agreement, the gist of which was that in return for Adolf Hitler's good behavior Great Britain would see that Germany had access to world markets and to raw materials. To help the Third Reich turn its swords into plowshares an international loan would be granted, although Mr. Hudson later denied that any mention of $5,000,000,000 was made...
...Children should be allowed to dress and wash themselves, even though they cannot do it well or quickly. "The useless assistance given to the child is the first root of all repressions and hence the most perilous injury the adult individual can do to the child. . . . The adult must help the child, but help him in such a way that he may act for himself...
...been Stephen Pichetto, the Metropolitan's restorer and technical adviser of painting, Florence Art Dealer Count A. Contini-Bonacossa, and for a period, the late Lord Duveen. A merchant who cultivated his mind while he was accumulating his chain of 240 stores, Mr. Kress did not need much help. It was about 25 years ago that he first started making large-scale purchases. Every summer he took time off to visit European spas and ferret the art centres. Always he came back with some important token, which he personally hung on the already crowded walls of his rambling duplex...
...retired orchid hunter gave them a map with orchid hotspots neatly indicated. In Bogota they fell in with 67-year-old J. B., "six feet three inches tall, lean and hard, definitely English." His hunches about orchid hiding places were nearly infallible. With this sort of luck and help the young men made good...