Word: succor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the Boer War well-fleshed young Lawyer Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi organized an ambulance corps and personally led it under fire to the succor of British troops with such bravery that he received the official thanks of Queen Victoria's Government...
...after the massacre at Jamestown, Va., the good ship Hopewell sailed up the James River to succor those who had settled at a point where the Appomattox flows into the James. For nearly three centuries thereafter the name of Hopewell had no fame. In October 1914 the du Pont company got an order from the French Government to manufacture nitrocellulose for smokeless powder. The No. 1 U. S. munitions concern built a huge nitrocellulose plant and a new town at Hopewell which before the Armistice had become a throbbing city of 40,000 souls. After the Armistice the du Pont...
...usual, the educators were most distressed by their financial plight and by the Federal Government's failure to succor them. George Frederick Zook's swansong as U. S. Commissioner of Education was a harsh honk at President Roosevelt for blocking the gift of $75,000,000 which he was sure the House wanted to make to schools. Education's submerged "masses," the classroom teachers complained that many a city was dismissing them wholesale in favor of young, cheap substitutes...
...must be done about this. Have we no Kohler among our Alumni? Then let a bowl, a basin, be passed about through all House Dining Rooms and let sweet charity flow into it that we may be the godlier. For if results are not forthcoming from this plea for succor we threaten--and it is no idle threat--to descend on masse on Fair Harvard and scourge the place with measles; and we have measles to spare. Woe therefore to the stiff-necked and unmerciful! We shall make Harvard the abomination of desolation, laid low with measles. Look...
...South Entry of University Hall is a room blithely inscribed "Loan Department," to which all students whose fathers are too entangled in the depression net to be of assistance are promisingly referred. Yet in late months there has been a change; too many have come for succor, more than there was money to go around; and now the room stands there with an apologetic air. Legitimate need in Harvard is theoretically covered by three sources, scholarships, beneficiary aid, and loan funds, and none have proved adequate to the exigencies of depression conditions. Scholastic competition has grown so keen that...