Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Devoted nearly all its time, vocal effort and a considerable amount of bitterness to consideration of farm relief. The debate was on the Haugen bill, which originally proposed a fund of $375,000,000 to protect farm prices, but the amount was pared to $175,000,000 in order to improve the bill's chances; $75,000,000 of this amount was set aside for cotton to bring the South into line, and a bitter fight raged. The North and East turned on the bill calling it rank subsidy. Congressman Tincher (who had a more modest...
That solitude possesses an appeal has been a subject of poem and prose from classical times. The wide expanse of loneliness to be found in forests and mountains every year draws a throng form the cities. Even the narrow isolation for one's room is sometimes a welcome relief from the competitive chatter of fellow collegians. When melancholy descends upon the soul, whether caused by a surfeit of real suffering, an unlovely letter, or the failure of some finesse, retreat from neighborly jostling often heals the hurt quickly...
...opinion that Muyil is not a First Empire city. Such faces or "mask panels" are common in Maya architecture; but in the southern and older area the details of the face are generally built up of stucoo, whereas in the northern and later area they are in relief. These faces at Muyil are in relief that is, cut into the walls...
...Began prolonged consideration of farm relief measures...
From this heated but futile de bate, many M. P.'s turned with relief to an ice-calm* exposition of the strikers' position under British law, set forth dispassionately by Sir John Simon, a renowned legal authority, who, as one of the few remaining Liberals, stands politically midway between the contending forces. He said...