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...line with your sensible proposal that the Divinity School be abolished, we suggest that Memorial Church also be tern down. Considerable financial benefits will follow: (1) the expense of maintaining that structure, and of conducting services there will be saved: and (2) the area thus vacated can be profitably used for some money-making project--such as a parking...
When Chile's Parliament passed historic Law 4054 in 1924, social security was introduced to the Western Hemisphere (the first U.S. federal law was passed in 1935). Since then, Chile has fleshed out the sys! tern to the point where every money earner is entitled, bylaw, to cradle-to-grave insurance against childbirth costs, doctor bills, hospital bills, disability losses and funeral expenses. Manual laborers, furthermore, get old-age pensions up to full working...
...mosaic begins to show a pat tern, the bureau feels it has a firm bit of background for its news coverage...
Hopeful Signs. When lookouts spotted a tern and a boatswain bird zipping overhead, hope of sighting land ran high. "These birds," Columbus noted in his log on the seventh day out, "never go more than 25 leagues [about 100 miles] from land." But the nearest islands at that point were the Azores, 600 miles to the north. A few days later the Santa Maria, Niña and Pinta ran into an oceanful of good omen. Soft breezes, another boatswain bird and a sea of floating weed with a live crab still enmeshed in it pleased everyone, and "the best...
...open letter, to students, Heidelberg University requests secondhand books, principally American literature, to rebuild its war-tern library of American classics...