Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dispersed into the lobbies as Lord Weir dwelt lugubriously on unemployment, pointing out that, whereas 7.8% was the greatest unemployment figure prior to the War, no less than 13.4% or 2,500,000 are now dependent upon poor law relief...
With such an abundance of excellent substitutes, Coach Bigelow will pilot his team through the season much as he did last year, rushing in relief combinations in order to force the play throughout the game...
...same way with scores of mountains and miles of trail, but with the satisfaction only, of numbers and of mileage. A colleague of mine used to say, "I go to a different place-every summer and exhaust the region." We never doubted that the region breathed a sigh of relief when he departed, but really he was more to be pitied. Burroughs did not weary of "Slabsides," Bolles of Chocorua, or Torrey of Franconia. And in trail work you get really to know your trails, your mountains, and the friends with whom you work...
...blood. In such cases the blood marrow of the bones immediately manufactures enough strong red blood cells to make up for the lost ones. In pernicious anemia, the patient may live two or three years, but hope for complete cure has heretofore been vain. Blood transfusions give only temporary relief...
...probity of open-space fiction today is truly magnificent. Author Kyne clearly states that this book's supply of moonshine, necessary for comic relief and to resuscitate the nobler characters after arduous adventures in the forest primeval, was laid down before Prohibition. Proud, independent and flirtatious though she is, Heroine Monica Dale, wilderness virgin, is made to explain in pretty confusion that the hero, after helping her to her lonely mountain-top cabin in a deluge, must go out and sleep in the barn. Otherwise she would be?er ?compromised...