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Word: repairable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finished product-what comes out after being rubbed, scrubbed, flexed, scented, shampooed and even clothed (by Antonio Castillo of Paris)-is emotionally as well as physically restored. The New York salon, No. 1 in her empire, is one of 20 Arden beauty repair shops in the U.S. and 15 more scattered about Europe, South America, Canada, Australia and Hawaii. Elizabeth Arden makes even more from manufacturing and selling Ardena products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lady's Day in Louisville | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...rents. And not only are their rents lower than current University ones, but they must also pay property taxes from which the University is free. And apartment upkeep expenses are higher than dormitory ones as the average apartment house is not large enough to employ its own staff or repair men but must pay more expensive outside help. Furthermore they must repair at no extra charge damages which, if they occurred in a College room, would invariably be passed on to the student occupant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 4/23/1946 | See Source »

Quest for Food. The colony builds long tunnels to sources of food. If a tunnel is broken, an order of unknown origin brings workers with repair materials. In dry districts the colony sinks deep wells to maintain the humidity it requires. Many termites' intestines swarm with microscopic organisms which help them digest the wood which is their standard food. Without these symbiotic helpers, these termites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Consider the Termite | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...until early this month he was never suspected. Then he took $863 from the First National Bank of Le Roy, Kans. and his luck ran out. His car broke down on a mud road as he backtracked to shake off pursuit; a farmer who helped him repair it saw that it bore no license plates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: For a Jury | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...wound treatment. He sent eye surgeons up front to do on-the-spot operations, decreasing the chances of blindness from eye wounds from World War I's seven in ten to three in ten. Tommies who wore glasses were equipped with two pairs (tankmen got three); repair units were set up in forward areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: King's Eye Man | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

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