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  • [Page 450] this diversity of creed was part of the situation in American Settlements, as it was our task to live in a neighborhood of many nationalities and faiths, and that it might be possible that among such diversified people it was better that the Settlement corps should also represent varying religious beliefs.

    Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes 1910

  • In the hearing before a congressional committee for the establishment of a Children's Bureau, residents in American Settlements joined their fellow philanthropists in urging the need of this indispensable instrument for collecting and disseminating information which would make possible concerted intelligent action on behalf of children.

    Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes 1910

  • The latest follies: Much of what circulates on the internet is utterly false and soon there will be a compromise about expansion of the so-called Settlements which will be a middle ground so neither the President not the Prime Minister loses face.

    A Changing Reality 2009

  • Settlements, which is based in Basel, Switzerland.

    NYT > Home Page By JACK EWING 2010

  • "Settlements" by George Zebrowski [2007 short story]

    REVIEW: Fast Forward 1 edited by Lou Anders 2007

  • "Settlements" are made to sustain this arrangement between elected politicians and AUC officials.

    Leo W. Gerard: Bush Administration Welcomed Colombian Free Trade Envoy with Terrorist Ties 2008

  • Fielding protests against the popular ignorance of these sufferings in words that might have been spoken by some pleader for the East End 'Settlements' of to-day.

    Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

  • "Settlements" is a euphemism because these new clusters of Israeli residences aren't lonely outposts where a few Jews decide to camp.

    Vail Daily - Top Stories Jack R. Van Ens Vail 2010

  • Those territories are officially labeled Settlements, even when such "Settlements" include homes in Jerusalem where Jews lived for generations, until the Arab armies drove them out in 1948.

    Canada Free Press Daniel Greenfield 2010

  • The Genesis of the 'Settlements' Myth www.maozisrael.org If you follow news from the Middle

    WN.com - Articles related to Abbas welcomes Clinton's proposal on building freeze 2010

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