Word: mends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following its outline the Survey reported on international conditions as of April 15, announced: "Briefly, world business with a few exceptions has not been in a prosperous condition during the winter months, but now appears to be on the mend, as underlying economic factors show slow but steady improvement"?phrases redundant of the reports on U. S. business...
...custom to hold an election of Deputies between the fixed periods of four years. "Let the politicians patch things up as best they can," is Jean Frenchman's thrifty motto, for an election is costly, and the French as a race would always rather mend a broken flower pot with infinite trouble than buy a new one for 50 centimes...
Thoughtful national advertisers, long aware that radio advertising is powerful and comparatively cheap,* might well be moved by potent Radioman De Forest's warning, mend their ways. A father also of sound cinema, Inventor De Forest felt privileged to add : "In both studio recording and theatre reproducing a most deplorable result of engineering indigestion exists. The profession has bitten off more than it can chew, and the resultant bellyache must be endured by the theatre-going public...