Word: restful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months he served in 1936-37. His accomplishments, he said, were to 1) land a couple of WPA projects, 2) help a man get out of jail, 3) get some Congressional Directories and Capitol calendars for friends back home. His rewards: he has enough stationery to last the rest of his natural life; he gets invited out a lot more than he used to be. "For instance," he says, "I now go to two or three funerals a week...
...States) qualified to take advantage of USHA's bargain terms-90% of the cost in longterm, low-interest loans-for slum clearance and low-rental housing programs. Not actually broke, USHA has signed $291,656,000 worth of contracts, earmarked $355,919,000 more, will keep the rest of its nest egg as a "safety margin" until fresh funds are forthcoming. Without directly asking for any, Administrator Straus broadly hinted: "This agency could easily earmark $500,000,000 more...
College graduates, like the rest of the U. S. population, believe three children in a family is ideal. But while the average family on relief goes over that quota, the average college graduate's family falls short. To find out why, Dr. John C. Flanagan, assistant director of the American Council on Education's Cooperative Test Service, made a minute study* of 300 families of professional people...
...prepared to show the rest of rural America how it is done, the Foundation offers to pay the expenses of physicians, engineers and teachers to come to Michigan to study the remarkable spectacle of 220,000 people pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps...
...after cash number of her snow she felt as if she were "coming out of a Turkish bath." In fact she complained of being in continuous hurry and dash: at 3 o'clock Monday morning she will leave Boston after 37 shows in 40days. "And then a five day rest,--think goodness!" Miss Henie sighed, and dimpled. She expected to spend most of this time in the arms of Morpheus--god of sleep...