Word: repairable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...brig Sophie, of Portland, Me., wallowed for 119 days in Atlantic gales while the sickened French passengers grew more & more scandalized at the improvidence of American seamen. Items: the captain rarely reckoned their position, the ship carried no spare sailcloth to repair the rags she sailed by, the logbook covers had to be unraveled for thread to patch the sails, food and liquor were so carelessly stowed that quantities of both were lost. Americans, observed Moreau, "rely on luck more than on anything else in making a voyage...
...Recently it has been very difficult for shoemakers or shoe-repairmen to obtain leather for repair. In Okayama Prefecture a shoe-repairman noticed that a cuttlefish is shaped much like the sole of a shoe. He painted in black ink on dry cuttlefish and used them as shoe soles." (Price of dry cuttlefish: 7 to 10 yen; cost of shoe-repairing...
...Maintain and repair the other countries' military equipment...
That the U.S.S.R. itself will deliberately provoke a major war Fischer doubts; the country, he believes, will be far too weak during the next 20 to 30 years. The danger as he sees it is rather that the Soviet Union might stumble into war through trying to repair its weakness-i.e., in trying to widen its protective belt of satellite states, it may encroach on the West's own conception of security...
...there. To a bill granting $600,000,000 to the Philippines for rehabilitation work, somebody in Washington clumsily attached a rider stipulating that the United States is to have equal rights of 'exploitation' in the Philippines [TIME, March 24]. It will take a long, long time to repair the damage done by the word 'exploitation...