Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...center the Canadians have a good roving pivot. He has an uncanny trick of opposing attacks with a deceptive poke-check. At defense Toronto has two effective and apparently tireless skaters. Both have played in every game without a relief. Porter is rangy and the fastest man on the Varsity squad. When he takes the puck he is the hardest man to stop, and almost invariably carries it the length of the ice. Porter is additionally valuable for he is rarely off his feet, being more than ordinarily clever at jumping sticks Wright at right defense does not stand...
...nearest village. There was not a house or protection of any kind to be had. Rain and hail pelted us for hours. . . . At last one of our party walked to the nearest hamlet where there was a telephone, and an automobile was sent out by the Near East Relief at Corinth...
Throughout the Empire the keenest relief was expressed on every hand. Premier Baldwin declared: "Had there been no settlement of the boundary question by agreement. . . chaos in Ireland would have resulted." Replying to those who carped at England's virtually "buying peace" by relinquishing her claims upon the Free State, he cried: "Where does the interest of Great Britain lie! Does it lie in keeping the South of Ireland poor and trying to squeeze a debt out of her? As a matter of pure business the interest of this country lies in a prosperous and peaceful Ireland...
Since M. Loucheur's bill is admittedly subject to extensive amendment, if indeed Premier Briand can railroad it through the Chamber at all, everyone turned for relief from the terrific squabble which is brewing over the measure to M. Marcel Cachin, fire-eating Communist Deputy, who created a loudly welcomed diversion by denouncing the nation which he feels to be responsible for most of France's financial ills...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy at Harvard College Observatory, has been appointed Visiting Lecturer to the universities of Belgium by the Commission for Relief in the Belgium Educational Foundation. He will visit the four Belgian universities in April...