Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...extraordinary heroism near Ville Savoye, France, August 16. 1918. Although Major Budd's post of command was subject to continuous and concentrated gas attacks, and despite the fact that he was severely gassed during the bombardment, he refused to be evacuated, remaining for three days to superintend personally the relief of his battalion and the removal to the rear of the men who had been gassed...
...France or in French literature is the manner in which their types of character, tragic or droll, differ from ours. The great Revolution appeals to us not for its size but because of the dramatic quality of its executions and the fineness and intensity of the aristocrats thrown into relief by the unrestrained, but justly impassioned mob. The gayety of the modern Parisian is something so hard to define, so hard to put your hand on, that it is often a relief after our own boisterous humor...
Frank H. Simonds '00 was made a knight of the Legion of Honor at a dinner in Paris Saturday evening at which Herbert Hoover, director-general of the international relief organization was the principal speaker. The decoration was awarded by Minister of Commerce Clementel...
...industries and the rapid discharge of soldiers is adding thousands each week to the already over-supplied labor market. When we add to these two potent sources of unemployed the present inevitable halt in the industrial machinery while it is changing from war to peace operation, the problems of relief become both grave and complex in the extreme...
...likelihood which he then foresaw has since been translated into the realm of actuality. We refer not alone to the many difficulties which price-fixing encountered by the way while the war was still on, but more especially to the anomalies consequent upon it, which have come into hold relief since the signature of the armistice. Boston Transcript...