Word: help
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something new in dump trucks. "This one over here is a product of the Bing Crosby Research Foundation," she said as she pulled a heavy red truck out of the tinkering hands of a small boy, mumbling to him as she did so a perfunctory "Can I help you?" The truck operated by electricity and had a complete gear panel. On the front of the 18-inch-long vehicle was an elevator such as is used to life and carry heavy crates or cotton bales. The truck, which ran on house current, could only travel in a circle of about...
...three solutions which, though perhaps not ideal, could straighten this out: 1. have a primary election and then a run-off; 2. require more signatures on nominating petitions, insuring both a smaller slate and nominees who are known to the voters; 3. at least institute preferential voting to help offset the size of the ballot...
...French, the nuns returned to their desecrated convent to find a ghastly spectacle: tombs torn open, their occupants (whose bodies the nuns regarded as sacred) sitting up or falling out haphazardly, valuables gone. The shocked nuns hastily replaced the bodies as best they could, and without outside help replaced the heavy lids of the sarcophagi. For another century the royal dead of Las Huelgas remained, unseen and forgotten, in the custody of the pious Cistercian sisters...
Padre Pio had long dreamed of having a hospital nearby to help take care of the sick who come to see him. Last week, he suspended his special Advent devotions to watch his dream take form. In the presence of an official committee, which included EGA Deputy Chief M. Leon Dayton, a sunburned Italian bricklayer placed the last tile on the roof of the Fiorello LaGuardia Hospital, which is being built next door to the monastery. Named for New York City's late mayor, the new hospital is expected to be opened next spring with eventual accommodations...
...said that Harvard can help American higher education to save its vitality if it will demand that the Navy exempt all NROTC students from the present loyalty test...