Word: refurbishment
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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...
...Talk It Over (Universal) deals with the efforts of a jaded socialite (Mae Clarke) to refurbish a brash, gum-chewing sailor (Chester Morris). The sailor becomes a prosperous gentleman but when he learns that the girl interested herself in him to win a bet. his wrath is great and he flays her and her rich friends for a pack of rotters. A nasty accident and a reconciliation follow. Cut to fit a familiar, frivolous and unpleasant pattern. Let's Talk It Over is not much to talk over...
...more or less definite ideas for the improvement of what is an unfortunate but over-advertised situation. In a previous article he argued that modern science and modern university education have removed many cobwebs from the youthful mind but as yet they have added nothing with which to refurbish the renovated area, no new creed which might serve as a guiding light; nothing to soften the rigid skeleton of science has been introduced...