Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the prayer, Franklin Roosevelt looked rapt in thought, but during the hymns (O God, Our Help in Ages Past and A Mighty Fortress Is Our God) his fine baritone could be heard clear and confident above the male choir. From church he went to the Capitol to address the joint birthday session of Congress...
Apprehensive at the number of classes he has slept through, he has enlisted the help of his roommates. But to no avail. Cold water wets him, but does not wake him unless in sufficient quantities to float him. It only irritates him. Other means, such as giving him a hot-foot are similarly unavailing. Experimentation has shown that his ears simply do not function while he is asleep. But it also shows that, oddly enough, his eyes can be awakened while his ears slumber...
...main complaint we have against Harvard is that they don't help us to find work during the summer. If they're going to lay us off for three long summer months, they either ought to pay us more or find us summer jobs. Fourteen dollars a week doesn't leave us much to save for the college vacation...
...added that she wished the University would agree to a closed shop. "Right now, we union girls are helping the non-union members to get better contracts from the College. I don't see why all waitresses shouldn't help to pay for our activities...
...unstable system of appointment, the Report recommends the substitution of a three-years term for all full-time appointees. Such a measure would eliminate the threat of dismissal which instructors must now feat at the close of each semester; the resulting increase in stability of working conditions could not help but produce a higher standard of work. As a corollary to this three-year plan, the Union urges that the University decide the question of permanent appointment after an instructor's eighth year of service. A definite policy to the appointees and to the department; for the former would know...