Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Xkaret is a walled city like Gulsem which we have not fully examined. There are two terminal buildings where the walls hit the construction. Thus far 17 buildings in pretty good repair have been found here...
...brain meant eventual death, most probably a horrible death in convulsions. To pull the needle out probably would kill the child. Yet there was the slightest of chances that it would survive the operation. Because it was only five months old, perhaps the brain of its own accord would repair the damage the needle had already done. Perhaps the child would live and grow up normally. But the doctor would not operate without the parents' consent. They consented...
This feature of the pending bridge law is the work of influential Harvard men, former oarsmen among them. In the necessary repair of the Cottage Farm Bridge, they saw the opportunity to remove a vexatious hindrance of which they were thoroughly cognizant. The move can hurt no interest whatever, and benefits others than the University. Besides creating out of hand a two-mile regatta course, the provisions of the measure will make the Charles more freely navigable for small pleasure craft...
...tests to the 40 "sample" pupils. Each test was conducted by "a citizen with practical knowledge of the subject under consideration." One Elmer Stevens examined the clothes, teeth, hair and general presentability of the "samples." Robbert McMurdy tested them in the use of common tools; he asked them to repair a window screen. John W. Ogren of the Association of Commerce delivered a ten-minute speech on "What the Public Expects of Its Schools," and the pupils were asked to tell what had impressed them about the speech. Carl Bismarck Roden, of the Public Library made them look...
...frontier which seemed to me symbolic of the attitude of the Russians toward their neighbors. Poland, under the tutelage of France, is a highly militaristic nation overrun by soldiers and bristling with fortifications,--bought with money loaned to them by you and I for the most part, to repair the ravages wrought by other countries in the war. The towns and villages still lie in ruins, but along the entire Poland frontier stretch miles of costly barb wire entanglements through a narrow gap in which the train runs. The Polish side is guarded by a regiment of well uniformed soldiers...