Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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French, for their own safety, to request the relief of the Negro division from the fighting line. Some 30 Negro officers were involved in this running away. Five-the clearest cases and supposed leaders of the movements-only five, had been selected for trial by the law officers of the Second Army. A court martial, composed of officers from another, a white division, had been ordered for this purpose...
...Carolina (Chapel Hill) celebrated its 130th anniversary, was informed by Glenn Frank, President-elect of the University of Wisconsin: "The educational world is caught in the sweep of a Safety first' movement. . . . It may be that the most serious need of the human race just now is comic relief...
...University came back at the Springfield relief pitcher in the next inning, garnering one run. In the eighth, the final touches were put on the game when Burgess drove the ball far over the Freshman diamond before it stopped rolling, getting home before the fielder had picked up the ball. The next moment. De Rham stepped into another of Crawley's shoots, sending it into deep right field for a similar home...
...gentlemen of the Examining Board pushed their papers away, sat back with various demonstrations of relief. They had finished arranging, in honorable order, the scores of the 95 golfers who, at Long Beach, L. I., in Chicago, on the Coast, qualified for the Open Golf Championship. There were 5 from the Pacific Coast, 30 from Chicago, 60 from the East and 1 player who did not have to qualify-Cyril Walker of New Jersey, the champion. There was also one score so much lower than any of the rest that the weary examiners, their labor over, discussed...
Beside seeking relief from the heat in iced drinks and cool clothes many students spent their spare moments between examinations and study swimming. The University pools were continually filled and in Westmorly it was said that the janitor had to spend most of his time keeping unauthorized persons from utilizing the facilities reserved only for students in the dormitory. The Charles was popular despite a slight typhoid scare and the two boat-houses provided, swimming, diving and dressing places for numbers of hot, tired students...