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Word: helpful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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With due respect to all mental giants, I cannot help thinking after reading of Cyberneticist Wiener [TIME, Dec. 27] that we "of mediocre attainments or less" can still provide an insight to the value of the human brain which is fearfully lacking in Professor Wiener's cold analysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 17, 1949 | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Cicero's Wind. A year and a half after they were married, Hubert set out to fulfill the dream. Back at the University of Minnesota, Muriel got a job as a typist, Hubert got a part-time drugstore job, worked as a janitor to help pay their rent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Education of a Senator | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...infinite capacity for the revolving, roller-bearing, dipsy-doodle phrase. He "took up the burden" . . . "entered upon consecrated service" and promised to "eliminate roaming livestock from the roads." He promised that one & all could come to his office and see him, though, he added with a wink, "... it will help a whole lot if you voted right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Done Up Classy in Tallahassee | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Eight Protestant congregations is the Square area will be asked Sunday to help Protestant displaced persons coming to Cambridge, as the first step in DP drive by the Harvard Square Council of Churches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Churches Start DP Drive | 1/14/1949 | See Source »

...example of a blow in the dark, such as I have described. The only fundamental answer I can give him is that I do not find myself where . . . I appear to him to be, and where he had delivered such lusty blows . . . When I read his exposition, I cannot help recalling the concave mirror in which I recently saw my reflection in the Musee Crevin in Paris and did not know whether to laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Brother, Where Art Thou? | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

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