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Word: succoring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...campaign, which will last this year for three or four days, is conducted annually at Harvard and other American universities. Its principle is not one of charity but of succor to the students of Europe, who would not otherwise to able to receive an education. In the years which it has been tried at the University, it has met with very notable success in raising a large contribution to the national fund...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McGLONE NAMES AIDES FOR FRIENDSHIP DRIVE | 3/21/1925 | See Source »

...four young Villagers, male, is jarred by the unconscious arrival of one more Villager, female. She is banged in the head by a brutal escort four stories below (although, to let you into a secret, the irate voices really come from the orchestra). The young men gallantly offer her succor, and abandon their apartment to her for the night when it appears that she is unable to leave...

Author: By R. S. F., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/19/1924 | See Source »

Origin. General Booth's father, William, left the Methodist ministry in 1865 in order to succor the lost sheep of London's East End. Thirteen years later, William and his wife Catherine* whipped their missions into a military organization. Their Army grew phenomenally as it advanced from post to post. The conquest of the U. S. dated from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Salvation Army | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

...much as a ray of hope that the impending loan would be used for the restoration of devastated Russia or to succor her starving people, I should welcome this help with delight, without consideration through the hands of what Russian government it passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Cyril Protests | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

President Friedrich Ebert of Germany received representatives of the Allen Relief Committee, the Quaker Relief Mission and the U. S. Press, and asked them to express Germany's gratitude to the American people for their succor of starving German children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Danke Schoen! | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

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