Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sighs of relief can now sweep the literary world, since it is known that Uncle Bim is no longer in danger and that the Widow Zander is no longer in poverty. Let the nearest belfry broadcast the tidings that Uncle Bim retained his money...
Soon reports of the accident spread about. Parisians expressed their relief, rejoiced especially for the sake of Mme. Foch (the former Julie Bienvenue) and the two Foch daughters, Mme. Becourt and Mme. Fournier. To his only son, they recalled, is vouchsafed the distinction "Mort pour la France...
...Cravath investigated. After a couple of months he sighed relief. President McKenzie resigned. But that meant finding a new president, a white man that would be acceptable to black men, for it was Fisk tradition to have a white president and a white and Negro faculty. It was a long business, but last week Mr. Cravath and his fellow trustees were able to name the man. They had chosen and their invitation had been accepted by one Thomas Elsa Jones, a graduate student in sociology at Columbia, a young man who expects to receive his doctorate in May. An Indianian...
...obvious is that La Follette, Johnson, and Borah have agreed to no tacit truce as the eastern democrats seem to have done. And the several western Democrats led by Walsh, will undoubtedly join the Insurgents in an assault on the aluminum trust and an effort at a definite farm relief bill...
Students in the University have shown an increasing indifference in the last few years to the Student Friendship Fund. That this has been in some measure due to the decrease in the vital need for relief in European countries it undoubtedly true. That it is equally to be explained by an ignorance of the actual aims and achievements of the Student Friendship Fund becomes apparent upon examination of the facts...