Word: salvorium
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With disbursements of only $36,326.46 (last year) the Save-a-Life League gives money to the indigent, gets employment for some, gives luncheon tickets "to unemployed, respectable, middle-aged women, unaccustomed to asking for aid," lodges men at the Salvorium (its rest home at Hastings-on-Hudson). Said Dr. Warren last week as morbid June 11 ap- proached: "We pray with them when they come, and we give them a Bible when they...
President Harry M. Warren of something called the Save-a-Life League described shell-shocked cases he had examined in his "salvorium" (saving place) and said that the student cases differed from those unnerved soldiers in being cases of "thrill-hunting." He thought most college students and instructors today were too young, falsely sophisticated...
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