Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work which the social service workers are engaged in," he continued. "Most of them think it to be one form of socialism or another. Others mistake it for charity only as such. Charity is, to be sure, a large department of social service, but it is the repair department...
...noble initiative of the President of the United States, the good judgment of the peoples of Peru and Chile and the wisdom of their rulers made it possible to find in President Harding first, and in President Coolidge afterward, an artisan who should repair the broken link by laying down rules for carrying out the only unfullfilled clause of the treaty which sealed peace after four years of war. He, having agreed to be our arbitrator, gave us those rules, and it was resolved that under his Excellency's wise, masterly guidance we should form a commission to supervise...
...therefore, only natural that within the limit of our resources and within the limit laid down by the naval accords, we should wish to put it back in such a condition of repair and efficiency as will assure security in the defense of our coasts...
Meanwhile the Army band passed in its gray uniforms with blue and white facings. There followed cavalry, infantry, a machine gun detachment, engineers, an Army Air squadron, three batteries of artillery, 32 tanks, mobile repair shops, 60 quartermaster trucks, a regiment of marines, a regiment of sailors, every group with a band in bright uniform. Last in line were the Governors of the states...
...After suffering the explosion of three underwater bombs of the largest size and two torpedo explosions, also of the largest size, directly against the hull, with no repair of leaks and no pumps going, the Washington remained afloat four days and was finally sunk by 14 hits of 14-inch shell fired at very oblique impacts to obtain data with respect to penetration of armor. The ship sank two and three-quarters hours from the time the guns opened fire...