Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...free from-domination by any political, religions, or social group, but including all students regardless of race, sex, or political and economic belief. It should "fight for academic freedom, for student rights, and for the goal of ending discrimination." It should encourage international student exchange, student travel, and student relief; help reduce student expenses, work for increased scholarships; and promote forum and discussion groups, artistic and cultural development, and student and faculty exchange...
...addition to relief from the 50-50 agreement, the British delegation, headed by Sir William Strang, was expected to ask Washington for relaxation on certain clauses in the loan agreement. The British wanted to continue empire trade preference and to protect dwindling dollar balances by restrictions on the convertibility of sterling into dollars. At best, such concessions could only relieve, not cure, Britain's economic ills. The circle of economic conferences came back to Paris' Grand Palais and the Marshall approach because of one appalling fact about the postwar world economy: Britain and other nations last year bought...
Mother made a fine 15-stone* corpse. Even in her coffin, she dominated the dingy, chocolate-colored house which Edna, her spinster daughter, would now inherit along with other odds & ends of property and nondescript furnishings. Edna had devoted her life to Mother. Edna was fiftyish. "What a relief for Edna," whispered the family. "She must feel that she's starting life again...
...until February, predicted Hathaway, is there the possibility of real relief in the present housing shortage. Then there may be a substantial number of vacancies because of this year's return to the two term university schedule...
...money came slowly--$4000 from the food relief drive, $1000 from the Student Council, $5000 from the World Student Service Fund, and then $10,000 from anonymous private donors. The job of providing the faculty was as big, but after Professor Matthiessen had taken the lead, others joined eagerly...