Word: plights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...study the Western banking situation "at the suggestion of the President." ¶ President Coolidge wrote to the officers and crew of the Shenandoah (see Page 22) : "I congratulate you most heartily upon the fine exhibition of skill displayed by you"; to a Farmer-Manufacturer "Convention in Chicago: "The plight of the farmers in recent years has been ... a menace to the prosperity of every other element of the community"; on the 218th birthday of Benjamin Franklin: "He was one of that marvelous group of Revolutionary leaders each of whom seemed if his particular department a supreme genius...
...There would be no difficulty in securing a generous response from any university in our country if our young men could only have their imagination quickened to realize the desperate plight of their comrades abroad. I hope that in your drive you will be able to reach every man in your university. No one would willingly wish to be left out of the collective group which, under the name of Harvard, will send help to those abroad who are in such distressing need...
...herring, and to eat hay and pieces of paper to satiate the guawing pangs of hunger." Professor S. Ralph Barlow '08 of Smith College yesterday gave a CRIMSON reporter the above state- ment, made to him by a Russian student, as an illustration from his own experience of the plight of students in European universities. For ten years Professor Harlow was a professor in Smyrna, and during the last three years he has been in charge of the Student Friendship Fund in Asia Minor...
...with the monster under water for some time. He was finally able to free one arm and plunge his trident into its body. The octopus held fast. Negri gave the signal to be hauled up. When his companions saw the writhing monster emerge they were panic-stricken, but the plight of their comrade appeared so serious that they went to his aid and cut the brute to pieces with their knives...
...wish that we might develop the field of Pan-American investment and the Pan-American export market with half the intelligence and energy devoted to the consideration of the plight...