Word: mending
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...Freshman team, untouched by injuries up to last week, has been completely shattered since the Hebron game. Captain Baldwin and Slocum, the two star forwards, are out indefinitely. Baldwin is suffering from an injured hip, while Slocum has a sprained ankle which refuses to mend. Pusey and Cozzens, substitute forwards who have had little experience so far this season, are due to start the game...
With the flight of Eaton to England, matters began to mend somewhat. The commons were moved to a newly constructed building, in which the elaborate system of English Commons was scrupulously carried...
...little has been done. The Senate, especially, feels that there may be much for it to do in the meantime. If the session continues through the political conventions there is no telling when it may end?perhaps not until it is time for the members to go home and mend their fences before election...
...above all, the minister puts in the leverage at the most effective point. It is his business to mend men's souls and not their mere material bodies. He strikes at the root of a man's character; he gets not only under his skin but into his heart, and provides the force to make him a man. For example, take the case of a drunkard, who breaks a leg in one of his orgies. The doctor can set the leg; thus physically the man may be mended. But is his soul any better than it was before...
...Clemenceau alone has enough prestige in America and England to mend the broken pots and at the same time prevent Germany from interpreting the departure of Poincaré as the capitulation of France...