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...Patch a Faucet. The horseradish was only the beginning. As the years passed, other gifts and other boys came to the school. Many of the students were boarders from out of town. The little principal who had started 50 simply ("No one will graduate unless he can set a pane of glass, patch a faucet, and has a year of Latin") found himself getting famous. When the town's contribution to the school's funds ceased, in 1924, Boyden went out and raised money to make up the difference. Governors, judges and college presidents began sending their sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Massachusetts Yankee | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...lived with their nine children in two rooms. The eldest girl had just borne an illegitimate baby. Tattered cotton coverlets lay in disorder on the only three beds. Chunks of plaster had fallen from the walls, exposing the laths. There was no heat; water came from a faucet in the yard. The young Negro wife giggled in embarrassment, twiddled the wick of the oil lamp that furnished the only light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Inspection Trip | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Yesterday afternoon James T. Mulhern, an honest and God-fearing working man, was on his way from his plumbing shop in Watertown to repair a dangerously leaking faucet in Somerville. THIS MAN WAS PREVENTED FROM GETTING TO HIS PLACE OF WORK BY A ROWDY BAND OF STUDENTS FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY WHO BLOCKED MT. AUBURN STREET FOR CLOSE TO AN HOUR. Such action by the students is in direct violation of the 1st, 5th, 7th and 13th amendments to THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. The consequences of their actions are grave. The faucet which James Mulhern was to repair became rapidly worse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Editorial, By Gosh | 2/25/1949 | See Source »

...trans parent plastic with a detachable nozzle on one end and an expansion bolt on the other. The whole thing weighs only two ounces. The user squirts toothpaste (about the same amount usually put on a toothbrush) into the nozzle, puts the other end into a wash basin faucet (it won't work on a Pullman car, not enough pressure). When the water is turned on, a jet of mixed water and toothpaste cleans the teeth. One shot of toothpaste is enough to last all around the mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brushless Toothbrush | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

With his "corrected floor space" settled, the tenant turned to Schedule III and added up an arbitrary amount of floor space for "facilities and conveniences." A cold-water faucet in the hallway rated .25 square meters. Private flush toilets rated four square meters, non-flushing toilets only two. Adding up the "corrected" square meters of the three schedules and multiplying the sum by the fixed charge per meter, he arrived at his monthly rent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Coefficients for the Millions | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

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