Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least this time lean Harvard center Stevenson won't have to go the full 40 minutes against a more rugged opposing center, since Harper has found an effective relief man for him in the person of Al Switzer...
...Eighth Commandment. In Long Beach, Calif., Librarian Theodora Brewitt announced with relief that 1948 had been an unusual year: no one had stolen a Bible from the city library...
...these attributes stand out in bold relief in the description he gave of all Conservative opinion--which attacks "in the stupidly and dangerously prejudiced terms typical of the Conservative element wherever it exists...
...fleet of merchant ships. It was said he had been born a gypsy, that he owned half the city of Aden, the rocky British colony at the edge of the Red Sea. During the war he had been anti-Vichy, had donated ?10,000 to British war relief...
...long-range need is for research, Hirsh believes. Science still does not know why some people can drink safely and others cannot. The underlying cause may be psychological (e.g., immaturity) or physiological (e.g., a constitutional weakness). Excessive drinking costs the U.S. $1 billion a year in lost wages, jails, relief, etc., but the total spent for research in alcoholism is less than $500,000. Says Hirsh: "This glaring paradox continues year in & year out despite the fact that excessive and problem drinking affects the lives of almost as many people as tuberculosis, cancer and infantile paralysis combined...