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...should only help others to help themselves: "We must always reckon that our aid can be only relative, and relative only in a marginal sense; to the efforts they themselves must make ... If their efforts are perfunctory or inefficient or fainthearted, our aid to them can scarcely be otherwise. Above all, our will cannot replace their will . . . We must be careful [not to become] their debauchers rather than their helpers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: GUIDE TO GIVING | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

First Voice--"I reckon we better say something' over pore...

Author: By Donlad Carswell, | Title: The Outlaw | 1/13/1950 | See Source »

...year ago today the University dedicated Lamont Library, and last night, Phillip J. McNiff, director of Lamont, took time out to reckon the credits and debits for the library's first 12 months...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: Lamont Healthy on First Birthday | 1/10/1950 | See Source »

Wrote hard-to-please Critic William Whitebait in the New Statesman and Nation: "What sort of music it is, whether jaunty or sad, fierce or provoking, it would be hard to reckon; but under its enthrallment, the camera comes into play . . . The unseen zither-player ... is made to employ his instrument much as the Homeric bard did his lyre." Said Alan Dent in the Illustrated London News: "The real hero I should call the unseen zither-player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Zither Dither | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...when men remembered the Maine, talked about Mr. Hearst's War, and got their hair cut for 35 cents, La Flamme's had a gas chandelier and wooden chairs. By the early '20's La Flamme's had to reckon with the crow cut, and installed electricity, new chairs, and linoleum floors...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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