Word: intact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand has been given to a man in whom even his political foes repose their confidence, and who has only the welfare of the country at heart. It is significant that in spite of our ever present yet ever-changing political and social diseases our national integrity has remained intact, and groups are willing to put aside lines of party and entrust their security to another for the sake of restoring our domestic prosperity and international prestige...
...night standing with the skipper on the bridge of a new destroyer, taking her speed trials in a full gale, he saw something bob past on the crest of a wave. "It had a lifebelt round its body, the face was that of a skeleton, but the scalp was intact and the sodden tresses of hair were black and very long...
...beneficent eyes of city administrations either corrupt or actually proud of San Francisco's reputation as "the Paris of America." No sailor, cattleman or fun-seeking hometowner who set foot in a Pacific Street dive had a chance of getting out with both his money and an intact skull. If he withstood in turn the blandishments of the "pretty waiter girls," aphrodisiac in his drink, tobacco juice in his whisky, a pinch of snuff in his beer, without succumbing to one thing or another, there was always a bouncer in a dark hallway to knock him down, pick...
...Manchu driblets. The $300.000 building was a gift of Mrs. Eugene Fuller and her son Dr. Richard E. Fuller. Director of the Institute and Professor of Geology at the University of Washington. Gem of the Fuller collection and chief treasure of the new museum in a consultation room brought intact from the old Peiping Palace of Henry Pu Yi. Here are tomb jades and T'ang idols, furniture, an Emperor's throne, porcelain and statuary - possibly the finest private collection of oriental art in the U. S. Away from the Manchu driblets, the rest of the Seattle...
...18th Century only two French experts, Jean Louis Hacquin and one Picault (both employed by Louis XVI), knew the secret of transferring a valuable painting from a rotted canvas or badly warped panel to a new backing, a very delicate operation in which all the original paint is left intact...