Word: mends
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Among its features new to passenger aircraft are: 1) a "flight deck" for the twelve-man crew as big as the total inside area of the biggest U. S. land transport now flying; 2) engines, reached by a catwalk through the wings, behind which an engineer can stand to mend fuel lines, change spark plugs in flight; 3) unlike any other flying boat, once in the water it will remain there and, like a ship, emerge only for repairs in an aircraft drydock; 4) it possesses a full-size flight of stairs. It also has the world's most...
Holyoke, Mass., has a cleft palate himself, got into dentistry through his efforts to mend it. Covering the gap in the back of the mouth where the soft palate should be was his problem. Normally during speech the soft palate moves and forms a partition between the mouth and the cavity back of the nose (nasopharynx). Without it sounds reverberate through the nose. Artificial palates made of hardened rubber for the hard palate and soft rubber for the soft palate do not work well. Hinged artificial palates cause trouble...
...reinstatement. Financially, the whole affair was distinctly small time. Bergen Trust's deposits were about $1,000,000. But FDIC's crackdown did remind bankers that its supervisory function is almost as important as its insurance function. After a warning a bank is allowed 120 days to mend its ways. Some 50 institutions have been warned in the past but all except Bergen Trust complied with FDIC's demands before the deadline...
...refuses to mend its manners, morals and mores it will not be Waldo Frank's fault. For some 20 years he has been adjuring, adverting, advising his countrymen to discover in their fragmentary selves a Sense of the Whole. Disregarded by the majority of Americans as a left-wing liberal with a boringly Messianic style, Waldo Frank at 47 is at least as much a part of the U. S. scene as the Hyde Park orators are of London's. Unlike most liberals he suffered a broken crown for his beliefs (in 1932 when he led a relief...
...Reader Nicolais mend her dates, recall that the Zinovieff letter figured in the British general election of 1924, two years before leaders of the British coal strike received through Lloyds and other banks some $2,000,000 from the Commercial and Industrial Bank...