Word: distress
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Literally hundreds of thousands of lives have been annihilated by the force of the eruptions and the fires and the sea. Lower Italy is panic stricken; mere words cannot describe the awful state into which the country has been plunged. Heroic efforts to relieve the distress are being made by scores of men and women in the vicinity whose lives were spared, but more money and more provisions are needed. It is right that this community give of its abundance at this time and contribute liberally to this, the noblest of causes--the relief of human grief and suffering...
...appropriated by the neighboring city of Lynn, and large sums were sent from Somerville, Malden and other cities. An appeal has been made to all the cities and towns in Massachusetts, it is expected that at least $1,000,000 will be needed to relieve the distress adequately...
...Sargent does not believe in the illiteracy test for immigrants because it excludes some of the very best of them and admits anarchists and men who teach doctrines which cause distress to the country. He advocates a system of most rigid examinations and restrictions to prevent criminals, anarchists, agitators and people affected with disease iron entering the country. The inspection and examination, however, should be made, not in this country, but at the ports of embarkation...
...famine affects three of the northern provinces,--Miyagi, Fukushima, and Iwate. At least 680,000 people are in extreme distress, and official statements show that suffering will continue throughout the spring...
Several members of the University having expressed a desire to assist in relieving the distress of the Boer women and children confined in British concentration camps in South Africa, it has been decided to open a general subscription in their behalf. The money so collected will be forwarded according to the advice of the Rev. Herman van Broekhuizen, former pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Pretoria, who spoke at the Union last Wednesday evening. A letter from him has been promised stating the methods of distributing such relief funds, and it will be made public when received...