Word: relief
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...comparative emptiness of the Yard on May mornings of these last two years has set all the more into relief the garb of contemporary Seniors. The gowns of the past are still, evidently, purchased; some moved, sparse sombre dots, in the early hours of the first week of May; they massed together before Widener in one grand display for the benefit of Notman's and the Album: then--oblivion. The almost-alumnus is no more to be distinguished from the rest of Harvard than is the sweaterless and letterless athlete...
...first meeting was held last evening when representatives of the Workers' International Relief and of the Boston shoe strikers spoke on the Carolina textile strike and the Boston shoe strike...
...proposed new physical laboratory to be erected adjoining the present quarters of the Department of Physics will provide much needed facilities in an important field of the University's activity. Without such relief the significant research projects of the department can not go forward unhampered by crowded quarters and inadequate equipment. Nor can the general undergraduate instruction program meet the increasing needs of the day with material equipment several decades behind the times...
Concession on Land. When Herbert Hoover went to Belgium in 1915 as Commissioner for Relief, he found Hugh Gibson as First Secretary of the American legation in Brussels and the two men soon became closest friends. During 1918-19, Mr. Gibson was detailed by the State Department for special and extraordinary duty under Mr. Hoover, then Director General of Relief. So intimate are President and Ambassador today that Mr. Gibson dared, two days after his naval speech last week, to pledge the U. S. to a most vital concession with respect to land armaments in a second blue-bolt speech...
...Debated a farm relief bill containing the export debenture plan...