Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been calmly argued or dreamed of by the dejected empiricists of 1929. Incorporated into its thought was an acceptance of social reform, no matter how hotly disputed were particular reform measures. Accepted by its major parties were the basic evolutionary changes represented by social security laws, trade union legislation, relief, social welfare-although fundamental to U. S. Government were knock-down-and-drag-out fights over particulars...
First he shifted Art Lyman from blocking back to center on the second eleven in order to afford game relief for Burgy Ayres, who was forced to go 60 minutes in the Bates encounter. And as a counterpart to that move, Hank Vander Eb went back to Lyman's backfield post after a short stay...
...fatal was revealed not in Denver, to that city's relief, but in Florida, where Charles Jefferson (Goddard), self-styled film scout, raped two Miami high-school girls, and murdered one while the other, in horror, watched. Last week, convicted, he was sentenced to the electric chair...
...Pact concretely provided only for German credits for Russian supplies and for "consultations" if peace should be refused. In Berlin, inspired stories promised Russian planes on the Western Front; in London the dominant reaction was relief; in Rome it was uneasiness. But in Moscow, Times Correspondent George Eric Rowe Gedye, noted readers waiting in their queues-more than a quarter-mile long-to buy Pravda, read the German-Russian peace proposal, gripped with "fear that they were about to be dragged into...
...give my peaceful message, all the passengers and crew of the Browning had left the ship. I now had to make it clear to those terrified people that they were to get back into the boat again and save the crew of the Royal Sceptre. The joy and relief of those in the boats surprised us. Did they believe us to be barbarians? Taking to the boats in a panic like that as soon as a German U-boat comes in sight! The captain of the Browning, to my great astonishment, obeyed my orders to save the crew...