Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard that the House Agriculture Committee had approved, 13 to 8, of immediate action on the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill, had laid aside the Curtis-Crisp compromise bill...
...BIRDS-Diary of an Unknown Aviator-Doran ($3.50).* A glossy finish is not among this chronicle's properties. Not for effect but for grim, humorous, human record, and probably for relief, did the author set down in airmen's vernacular daily events and sensations from the day he sailed from Halifax to the eve of his death behind Germany's lines. Nor is it a philosopher's diary, but the blunt journal of a rather tough, inarticulate "war bird." He "laughs off" the emotion stirred in him by a full moon at sea, by guessing...
...composed of Scott, center; Zarakov and Tudor wings, opened the game and spent more time on the ice than the first line of Chase, center, Gross and Hamlen wings, which relieved them throughout the game. Coady alternated with Ellison and Clark at the defense posts and Stanley occupied a relief position on both forward lines. Play was clean and fact throughout the game, with heavy body checking in spots. Harvard drew three penalties while Dartmouth had six men on the ice at all times...
...National Museum at Atheus contains an archaic bas-relief taken from the walls of Themistocles showing what we would call the face-off of a game of field hockey. The opposing centers are about to put in play a ball the size of a baseball; two forwards on each team are prepared to receive it. The men carry sticks similar to those now in use, though they are shorter as to handle and end in a crock rather than in a flat arm. The whole scene greatly resembles the aspect of the modern game in every way. Of course...
...distinct relief to hear that the Committee on Character and Fitness of Applicants for Admission to the New York Bar has decided that a college degree should be required of all applicants. Almost all of the college graduates applying for admission to the legal profession have been found to be "well fitted both in character and education." Perhaps seventy-five per cent of those with only secondary school education were considered "seriously deficient in general education and general background." The motive for choice of the law by the latter was generally hope of increased salary. Few of them...