Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like the human weakness for tobacco-it does not cure anything, but it undoubtedly soothes and caresses. Carried to excess, it grieves the judicious; practiced in moderation, it allays the passions, promotes digestion, placates animosities, and makes for happiness at the domestic hearth . . . No sane man would seek relief in cussing if a safe fell upon him, or a lion bit off his leg, or an anarchist had at him with a bomb, or his wife eloped with the letter-carrier. But on missing a train, or slipping on an orange peel, or losing a collar button...
Reston then singled out Dewey's charge that "Republican statesmanship" had saved EGA from being "just another foreign-relief handout." Said Reston: "Secretary Marshall's speech at Harvard, announcing the ERP, emphasized that the United States could not go further until the European nations themselves got together and defined and devised a program that would bring about the recovery of Europe...
Despite this, Dean Bender said, conditions here are better, in general, than those elsewhere, and relief is in store next spring, when there will be a net loss of 300 students...
...Philadelphia and in a clinic in the heart of hard coal country, Dr. Motley tried this apparatus on 500 silicotic miners. All of them reported various degrees of relief. But a partial cure is not enough. Soon the United Mine Workers will send research teams down into the mines to find out if silicosis can also be prevented...
Charles R. Brynteson '50 and David L. McMurtrie '50 head the Student Welfare Committee; George I. Harris '50 and Amory Houghton, Jr. '50 are chairmen of the Freshman Affairs and Class Affairs Committees respectively, and Frederick Deane, Jr. '48 heads the Money and Relief Committee...