Word: refurbish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free public trade schools to teach youngsters to fly an airplane, repair an automobile, refurbish a woman's face. But until last week there was no free public school for training workers to serve the nation with its prime necessity-food. Last week New York City's Board of Education announced that a week hence it would open the first Food Trades Vocational High School...
...ladder, a stocky young man wielded tar buckets, rolls of tar paper. He was Very Rev. Michael Maslov, dean of the Cathedral. For months, rain had been leaking through the roof, damaging the murals and icons within. Prelates of the Cathedral had launched a campaign for $25,000 to refurbish it, but little money was forthcoming from the poor Russians of the congregation. So Dean Maslov scrambled to the roof, spread seven rolls of paper and three buckets of tar upon it. Total cost...
Worn smooth by passing feet since the building was erected in 1811, the steps became dangerous when covered with ice last year. Maintenance officials decided to refurbish the stairs when one of the professors slipped on the path to knowledge...
...panicky and self-righteous in his protests over the use of soldier boys in the torchlight rally preceding the President's speech. But his objections to the warmed-over panacea are sound. Liberty Leaguer Shouse wins the same commendation by essentially the same stand. And Herbert Hoover continues to refurbish his badge of integrity, on the approved plan of denouncing Roosevelt. There is no need to be duped by the five-point system he would substitute for the President's latest nonsense. A glance at the propositions indicates their pure and simple anti-Rooseveltism. So far there has been little...
House of Lords had a special opportunity to refurbish England's honor by giving Lord de Clifford exactly the same sort of justice a commoner, who had been driving 40 m.p.h. in the middle of the road through a foggy night to a death-dealing smash, might expect in any English court...