Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Schuster of the Green team caught Gordon off his game in the first two sets but after dropping the second set, the Crimson player finally settled down, and with the aid of his fast slice service, pulled himself out of the hole by the narrow margin...
...profitable as in Europe where London and Paris are but a few hours apart. And even despite the amazing growth of commercial air service in Europe to the point where three and a half million miles have been flown, England has deemed it wise to aid in the development by grants of huge subsidies. Since conditions are less favorable to extension of commercial air service in the United States of huge subsidies. Since conditions are less favorable to extension of commercial air service in the United States than in England, the task of stimulating progress falls even more directly...
...conditions exist which justify the imposition of this additional burden upon the taxpayers of the nation. All our pensions were revised and many liberal increases made no longer ago than 1920. Every survivor of the Civil War draws $50 per month and those in need of regular aid and at tendance, which already included 41,000 of them, draw $72 per month. As others come to need this the Taw already gives it to them. The act also proposes to extend the limits of the war period from April 13, 1865, to Aug. 20, 1866, so that those who enlisted...
Punch, London's politico-humorous weekly, prodded President Coolidge for offering Europe aid after the reparations tangle had been unraveled. In a political cartoon, Mr. Coolidge is seen standing on the bank while he watches Dame Europa floundering in the reparations swamp. Says "Cal": "As soon as you have extricated yourself from the morass in which you are now wallowing I will be happy, Madame, to summon assistance...
Homer St. Gaudens, with a knowledge of Art, coupled with fluent command of French and German, was chosen to aid the U.S. camouflage corps. He was instrumental in building up this new and important corps of the Army, showing great ability as an organizer and leader. In France he was known to his, men as " Silk Hat Harry"?a name gleaned from his own phraseology in describing the effect of walking across grass as similar to that acquired in brushing a silk hat. During the German drive on Paris in the early part of June, 1918, when the Second...