Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Make available to British warships the use of our North Atlantic bases for maintenance and repair...
...Keynoter Harold Stassen began with a thought of his own: "Our forefathers erected here a great lighthouse of liberty," ended with Washington's: "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The event is in the hands...
...Washington Square, New York City, and look up at the so-called arch, you will find yourself reading 22 words by a man now living." (The words are George Washington's to the Constitutional Convention: "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand...
...repair torn veins and arteries is a big problem for surgeons. For broken blood vessels grow limp, like a flat tire, and it is difficult to spread the severed ends into tubular shape so they can be stitched together. Some 30 years ago, Dr. Alexis Carrel, then teaching at Chicago, overcame this difficulty by stuffing torn blood vessels with vaseline. But this technique was so troublesome that few surgeons have followed it. Last week famed Physiologist Anton Julius Carlson of the University of Chicago announced that one of his medical students, Sidney Smith, had finally made the two ends meet...
...spent $220,000 to repair Telefonica and got ready to resume operations over Spain's 346,000-telephone circuit. But Dictator Franco had other ideas. Paying lip service to eventual restoration of foreign property rights, he kept the system and its 8,000 employes under Government management, quibbled with I. T. & T. over rehiring some of its 20 American executives. I. T. & T., with a $67,372,241 investment (nearly one-seventh of its total assets) in the Spanish subsidiary, was troubled. Fortnight ago Franco put an end to the utility's anxiety by returning the management...