Word: help
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know just about everybody on the squad now," Lamar said, "but of course the A squad is not yet final." The Andover game, first of six for the Yardlings, is expected to help a let in shaking down the team...
Burlingame, the first speaker, had maintained that there are "practical reasons" for what he termed the present "lapse" in American writing. He predicted that an approaching "synthesis of science with the humanities will help produce a literature that will better enable man to understand his position in an industrialized society...
Tentative plans have been made to help at least three groups: the "Hot Universitaire Alsyfonds" an organization set up in Holland to help students fleeing from Eastern finish their education in Holland's Universities; The Scuola Citta Pestalozzi, an experimental school in Florence's most overcrowded and poorest districts for the aid and education of orphans and children of poor families; and a central aid committee in Paris which relays specially prepared packages to tubercular students in universities throughout France...
...group program was slightly different. The delegates staged folk-songs, dances, and some original choral work in a pageant that represented the history of America. Their offering was popular; the delegates noted before they left that people were humming folk-songs from the show all over Budapest. "To help explain the thing," says one of the returning delegates, "we got up a program...
...girl rushed downstairs and tried to phone the embassy. She was prevented from doing so the said in a public statement of which Warshaw has a copy, "by the interpreter on duty, who forcibly held the phone. I threatened to go outside and scream for help, and he then permitted me to use the phone," Embassy officials rushed over and emphasized that this was a criminal act; the girl wired the organization she was representing and they ordered her to by home from Budapest immediately...