Word: help
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those of us who don't know much about what goes on in the outside world have some inkling that affairs are not at their normal smoothness, and education in particular is not rolling in gold. We are warned by college presidents that if the tax payer doesn't help, private educational institutions will go down. We receive heart-rending pleas for money from conscientious people who want to help war-torn people and home-less children whose homes we have helped to destroy, and in the same mail requests for gifts to the Harvard Fund to keep the University...
...Sherman made the little speech expected on such occasions, his voice was so low that he could be heard only with difficulty. He was sure, he said, that he would have the help and support of officers who were in the room, and of all in the Navy. There was a dead silence when he concluded. When the ceremony was over, many admirals pointedly went downstairs to applaud Admiral Denfeld on his way out of the building...
...B.F.S.S. it was inadvisable to cooperate in the making of this film." Dejected, the moviemakers returned to London. "We hope that somewhere," wrote Messrs. Powell and Pressburger to the Times last week, "there is a Master of Foxhounds with a mind of his own and enough sporting blood to help us finish this film...
...help while away off-duty hours with the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet, the Duke of Edinburgh got a present from home: his yacht, the Cowslip, which arrived in Malta by aircraft carrier...
...serene little catalogue note of his own, Artist Cooper said he could be of scant help to the critics: "The unconscious painter is himself only a spectator of the work he produces." But, said Cooper, he could explain why he had signed and dated his work on the back instead of the front: "The pictures may be hung in any of four ways...