Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...borrowing five new mounts last week, Greentree at least tried to repair the first defect. The second was irreparable. In arranging the series the U. S. Polo Association had agreed to let the winners of the U. S. Open Championship represent the country. By substituting Winston Guest for Jock Whitney at Back and Stewart Iglehart for Gerald Balding at No. 2, the team-with Pete Bostwick and Tommy Hitchcock at Nos. 1 and 3-could have been improved but the U. S. Polo Association well knew that no such doings were permissible. Faster turf and the new U. S. mounts...
...monster 115,000 h. p. turbines. Since this is 60-cycle current and since the city has been using 50-cycle current, some 100,000 electric clocks would run 20% fast on Boulder Dam power if left as they now are. Last week the city authorities opened municipal repair stations where citizens of Los Angeles may take their electric clocks, have them adjusted free of charge so that they will not gain twelve minutes every hour on Boulder Dam current...
...smooth-running, up-to-date. To compete with it, the new firm of Landon & Hamilton inherited a 1932 model apparatus, battered by its last two collisions with the Democratic juggernaut, rusted by inaction and despair. John Hamilton's job came nearer to being one of rebuilding than of repair...
...Versailles fete which raised only $5,000 to restore the French Bourbon kings' crumbling Versailles and Trianon palaces, John D. Rockefeller Jr. was shocked by their state of decay, gave the Comité $1,000,000. His workmen did a thorough Rockefeller job of repair. Later Mr. Rockefeller gave $2,080,000 more, some of it to restore the War-shelled Cathedral of Reims and to put the château of Fontainebleau in shape...
...Jackson, looking his 70 years, adjusted his bifocal spectacles, described his method of repairing a throat crushed and puckered by a blow, strangulation, fall, crash or gash: "We have gone to the iron foundry for mechanical aid in treating such cases. Iron is cast through the use of sand cores that have the shape of the desired casting. We need a core that has the shape of the normal larynx so that we can mold from the amorphous mass of shattered cartilage, torn tissue and blood clots the opening necessary for the normal functioning of the organ." To do that...