Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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International Relief. A "preparatory committee "presented a draft ot a statute for an International Relief Union of which governments and national Red Cross organizations would be members. It woulc coordinate international relief activities so that prompt and efficient relief might be given in case of a national disaster in any country. It would also study means ot preventing floods, famines...
...burning of Pythagoras and his Golden Brotherhood, Leonardo picking up fossils on the Florentine hills, Darwin bareheaded before an ant in Kent, Huxley impaling bland Bishop Wilberforce before the British Association. The latter episode, vividly reconstructed, is the high point of the narrative and is brought into sharp relief by a humorous glimpses of Miss Eliza Pym of Woodstock, blushing furiously but consumed with curiosity to hear that the wild flowers she draws in delicate, virginal water-colors have...
...Germany certainly has no desire for the development of European economic life on the basis of high tariff. Germany, however, cannot go the way of general tariff reduction or even the entire removal of tariff barriers which perhaps alone would be sufficient to afford relief from the world's distress, as long as other countries which confront us with far greater economic and political power maintain a decided system of protective tariffs...
...depressing bout last week on Long Island. In the first round, Goodrich walked over to the Chilean, hit him in the face with his right fist. Loayza fell down, got up again. Goodrich hit him in the face with his right fist, etc. This operation was continued without relief for three interminable minutes. "Goodrich tires," yelled a hopeful voice from the cheap seats. But Goodrich did not. tire. In the second round, he repeated his merciless operations, when suddenly Loayzo began to hop about on one foot with the deranged, sickening absurdity of one whose mind and nerves have become...
They would not let Gutzon Borglum finish his Confederate Memorial in bas relief on Stone Mountain, Georgia. The committee in charge quarreled with him or he quarreled with them-it all came to the same thing-but he broke up his clay models and fled and they hired a new sculptor-a not un-Benvenuto Cellinesque affair (TIME, Mar. 9, 16, Apr. 27, May 11). But Mr. Borglum is to have another charge...