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Word: reliefs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such pressing matters as farm relief, the Boulder Dam project, the naval building program and Muscle Shoals, views are so divergent that action can hardly be taken until later in the session, whenever Congress meets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: No Special Session | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...certain extent only, however, for with the great burden placed on the tackles in modern football, two men can scarcely be expected to carry out the entire tackle assignment without frequent relief. In this respect the loss of W. L. Storey '30, last year's Freshman bulwark, through ineligibility will undoubtedly prove a serious handicap. J. E. Barrett '30, Storey's running mate last year, is the leading prospect for relief work. He is the solid, powerful type of tackle who can stand and administer plenty of rough treatment. H. L. Levin '29, T. H. Alcock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...that you can have a busted farmer and a prosperous city man at the same time.... There's something wrong when 1,000 banks out here in this bread basket of the nation 'go busted' in one year. I am not saying what form of farm relief the farmer should have, but he must have something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Thompson s Crusade | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. ... I am standing now for what the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence stood for. What was good enough for them is good enough for me!" Specifically, and divested of glamor, that means: 1) No Geneva parley or League of Nations entanglement; 2) flood relief; 3) inland waterways; 4) farm relief. Mayor Thompson wants the West to know that his championship will go to the man who, red-blooded and foursquare, stands upon such a platform as candidate for the Presidency of the U. S. Some one of these planks, indeed, must lie close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Thompson s Crusade | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...other high-grade bulls and heifers stirred uneasily to the vibration of the ship. They, blessed by Father Lazarus of the Orthodox Greek Church in Manhattan, were on their way to Athens, where they are intended to stimulate and improve (with the co-operation of the Near East Relief), the native animal husbandry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Cattle Blessed | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

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