Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evidence yesterday. A cold wind and rough water kept all boats from the river and necessitated the use of the rowing tank for the first time this week. Practice in the tank was somewhat hampered by the lack of the airplane motor circulator which is temporarily out of repair...
...classmate of the President, uses one. It was Mr. Morrow who brought the contrivance to the President's attention and presented him with the one now in the White House. It might never have been discovered had not it become disabled and a hostler-electrician been called to repair...
...certainty that instructions in dramatic writing will not be abandoned. It would, indeed, be a misfortune if the departure of the Workshop's founder should cause an annihilation of courses and active interest in applied dramatics. Mr. Wister's report but emphasizes the university's commendable determination to repair what damage it can and to carry on its traditions of dramatic teaching...
...premonitory earth tremors preceded the shock; politicians, the press, the public were equally surprised. It was known that Mr. Hughes desired to retire to repair his private fortunes, which had suffered from long public service. A lucrative law practice in Manhattan has awaited him, even sought him out. He will be 63 when he leaves office, still young enough to enjoy a profitable career...
...Percy Stickney Grant, one-time rector of the Church of the Ascension, made the biggest news contribution of all. The newspapers learned that he had been forced to repair to a hospital, the victim of a nervous breakdown. It was known that Dr. Grant had been in an extremely nervous condition when he resigned his pastorate last June, and the cause of the breakdown was thought to be a recurrence of an old ailment, anemia...