Word: rebuilder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldier's hand had been shattered by a grenade explosion. Tendons, nerves and parts of bone up to the wrist were gone. In nine cases out of ten, amputation would have been routine. But surgeons in this case set to work to rebuild the hand...
...Prohibition days commanded a fleet of 20 rum-runners, controlled the entry of liquor into New York Harbor; of a heart attack; in Belle Harbor, Queens. After spending "a little vacation" in Atlanta's Federal Penitentiary (he was convicted of bootlegging in 1926), he tried to rebuild his crumbled fortune through sports promoting, bought the N.Y. Americans hockey team, introduced professional hockey to Manhattan, headed Miami's famed Gables Racing Association...
...past the friars of Grazie kept stoves burning day & night behind the wall to drive the winter damp out. This winter they have no coal, and humidity, unchecked, will do more damage. A task force from the Italian Art Monument Department has made plans to rebuild the refectory. Professor Emilio Lavagnino, chairman of the Government committee in charge of the fresco, guessed gloomily that his work "offers a possible guarantee to keep the picture in some recognizable form for another 30 years-not more...
Everywhere they saw young Germans, eager to rebuild, struggling against a mountain of wreckage, physical and spiritual, left by the Nazis. At the partially rebuilt Technische Hochschule at Darmstadt, students took lecture notes on their knees because there were no desks; many spent their vacations last summer recovering laboratory equipment from the rubble. Nazi book-burnings and Allied bombs had combined to decimate the textbook supply; at Frankfurt alone, half a million books were lost during raids. The circulating library of the University of Munich is in one small basement room...
...used discarded box linings for drawing paper, contrived hundreds of escapes from the steaming bakery into a world of his own making. As an art student, Knaths learned a new escape trick: Pablo Picasso and Swiss fantasist Paul Klee taught him how to tear down what he saw and rebuild it to suit himself...