Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...games will be in his guard position at the initial whistle. The backfield is settled except for the choice between Guarnaecia and French as running mate to Miller and Sayles. Guarnaccia is the present favorite for the starting berth, which would leave French as a dangerous threat in a relief role...
...Leninakan). Whirling seething earth-masses hurtled and reeled. With a roar like that of thunder, many of the stone buildings of Leninakan crashed in ruins. All electric, gas, telephone and telegraph equipment were thrown out of commission. When communication was restored it was learned that the Near East Relief buildings at Leninakan still stand. and that neither the 9,000 orphans sheltered there nor their occidental nurses, matrons, doctors suffered a single casualty. Some idea of the material damage and loss of life in the quake area was to be gleaned from the fact that the equivalent of half...
...speaking tours carried him around the world. During the World War he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel and at the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, was sent there on the American Red Cross Commission. In 1917 he succeeded Colonel W. B. Thompson as commander of the relief forces...
...convention voted systematic relief to the Passaic strikers, but failed to produce any scheme for prompt settlement...
...Syracuse, one Paul Steinberg, no jaywalker, leaped adroitly, saved himself from destruction by clinging to the radiator of an automobile that would have run him down; went on his way, smiling with relief; started to cross another street, leaped again, landed on the running board of another assaulting car, his knuckles accidently crashing into the driver's jaw. "I'll have you arrested," shouted the driver. "Go ahead," grunted Mr. Steinberg, "I'm lucky I should be able to be arrested...