Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tribes under Abd-el-Krim surrounded these small forts, with the result that the French had to undertake a series of expensive attacks in order to relieve them. As soon as the blockhouses had been provisioned and the relieving troops had withdrawn, the Riffs again surrounded them and relief fighting had to begin over again...
Epilepsy. A simple diet high in fat has been found to bring relief to the unfortunate child suffering from epilepsy. This hopeful news was brought to the convention by Dr. M. G. Peterson of the Mayo Clinic. His new treatment for fits and convulsions has been in use for intervals of from two and a half years to three months; and, of the 37 children treated, more than half have not been troubled with convulsions since they started on the diet...
...second day in succession the thermometer hit 110 at noon yesterday, and then dropped to about 100 for the rest of the day. The weather bureau said last night that it was expected that relief from the spell would come tonight...
...foreign powers (TIME, May 25) to arrange to pay up their debts. He went on to say-lest foreigners take too much comfort from the kindly talk of U. S. citizens abroad- that all the nations (possibly excepting Yugo-Slavia) which had borrowed money from the U. S. for relief and reconstruction after the War had broken their pledges. For they promised, when borrowing, to have no preferred creditors ahead of the U. S.- yet most of them have settled other debts but done nothing to satisfy U. S. claims...
Since her second husband's death, she has for the most part lived very quietly in the Capital. Her public acts have been few. When the German Embassy in Washington refused to half-mast its flag at her husband's death, contributions to the American Committee for Relief of German Children began to fall off and she publicly asked in her husband's name that the German children be not made to suffer for the German Embassy's offense...