Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bored undergraduate. Wishing to wile away a few minutes, the easiest machines to win on, according to repair man Tom White, are in the Cottage Grille. For the semi-pre, Harry's Arcade Spa contains the best selection, ranging from the latest bombastic bellringers to the vintage '89 skill trials. In my case, all agree; stay away from Boston's monster arcade nickel gobblers everyone...
Although the vault and high-jump pits at Briggs haven't been cushioned with sawdust yet, the rest of the place shows the signs of repair work done last summer...
Dean Bender said that he would follow the example of the Dartmouth student government that forced the eight Hanover men apprehended painting up the University during the Harvard-Dartmouth weekend to pay repair fees amounting to between $400 and $500. Sitting as a judiciary body, the newly empowered Dartmouth student government further advocated a permanent suspension of all students proved guilty of future vandalism...
...categories with a gift of TIME. For instance, a Camden, NJ. attorney wrote us: "Among those whom I want to remember at Christmas are my nephew at college, a lawyer associate, a doctor, a clergyman, a salesman, my barber, a school teacher, an automobile mechanic, and a radio repair man. For all of them, a subscription to TIME fills the bill to perfection...
Complaints against maintenance are legion--the case of the nine dollar chair which is repaired for seven; the piano moved after the dance for twenty-five; or the spot on the wall which gets the room painted, at a cost resented whether high or low. All typical of the popular gripes, they are usually followed by charges of padding, graft, mismanagement and outright corruption. A closer study points to a different picture. The chair doubtless required several hours work by a skilled carpenter in addition o the time expended in transportation form the House or office to the maintenance building...