Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said the Countess, "my bathtub in Paris is an ancient Greek sarcophagus. It has high relief sculpture and the inside is overlaid with gold. It is an original work which I prize very much. I purchased it in Greece...
...beheld that wonderful trick of nature which the French call la grande corbeille. It is a little gem of an oasis, set deep down in a ring of enormous sand dunes, with masses of feathery date palms swaying above the cool waters of the spring. With a sigh of relief, we plunged down the slopes into the cool, jasmine-scented air to make our last camp...
...November. Premier Poincaré thereupon decided to peg the franc against further rise or decline. By his order the Bank France announced that until further notice it would buy or sell any number of francs at 25 to the dollar. Instantly speculation in the franc ceased. Frenchmen sighed with relief for a further rapid rise would have raised the gold price of French goods so much that French exporters would have been ruined...
...present Mexican Government was described as "a product of new paganism." Finally it was asserted that the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico: 1) has carried on most of the educational, relief and hospital work which has been done in that country; 2) has not drawn undue wealth from the people...
...well, said their masters. They were drawing two weeks' extra pay for doing nothing. A fortnight of this and the channel jam was cleared. It would freeze again immediately and block some dozen boats still en route. But the Lake Carriers Association, which had ordered out the ice relief tugs and the Sainte Marie considered the job done. It costs thousands of dollars daily for such work. The pro rata cost is insignificant where there are 200 boats, as there were in the original jam. For merely twelve, the cost is prohibitive...