Word: refurbishings
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...Nieman Fellowships and the scholarships awarded union leaders were instituted to permit working newspapermen and labor leaders an opportunity to refurbish their skills so important to the community. Of even greater significance is the present step. Advances in college education affect directly only "the comparatively small minority who attend our four-year colleges." Great progress has still to be made in the secondary schools and adult education if the average American is to partake of greater cultural opportunities. An inadequate secondary school system can handicap the university greatly in its efforts to prepare its students; similarly, a mass incomprehension...
...housewives some facts of life this week. That they had to be told would have made their mothers and grandmothers blush for them. OPA's advice: reline coats, cut down adults' garments for children, reknit sweaters, retrim dresses, use the needle-&-thread at home to produce, remake, refurbish family clothing. All this would help the war effort, vowed...
This time Bob Hope wrestles with the role of a young stockbroker who wagers $10,000 that he can tell the truth for 24 hours. He finds it tough going. Although Scripters Don Hartman and Ken Englund (and other nameless gagmen) have tried hard to refurbish the old farce by throwing out the 1916 gags and substituting their own, the change is scarcely noticeable...
...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...