Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belly, stared about vacantly. In a day or two the creature was back in its cage, apparently none the worse for wear. In a corner of the laboratory lay the body of another monkey named Matilda, its belly turning blue. Matilda had been "frozen too fast." was dead beyond repair. In the icebox was a third stiff monkey named Gaston, which Dr. Willard did not intend to revive until after a ten-day congealment...
...kinds of magical practitioners: I) born wizards who kill from pure malignity or from appetite for human flesh; 2) occasional sorcerers who hurt only people they dislike and may even exert their force quite unconsciously. The first are exterminated instantly when caught. The second may escape punishment if they repair the damage. Thus when a woman in childbirth is having a difficult labor, her friends remember some quarrel with another woman who must now be causing the trouble, and this woman is requested to come and apply her saliva to the mother's body, thereby canceling the enchantment...
...acts or decisions is well-nigh treason. During the lean years after the Revolution it was decreed under the NEP policy of Dictator Lenin that houses in Moscow which had fallen into disrepair might be granted as "private possessions" to any Russians willing to put them in good repair at their own expense. In theory such houses are not "private property"-i.e., the landlord cannot sell out-but as "private possessions" they constitute the most valuable thing a Russian can get his hands on in fantastically overcrowded Moscow. Still disinclined to crack down on "Lenin's landlords." the State...
...plenty of hungry Democrats wanted them. Maryland's Senator Millard E. Tydings quietly wangled a Virgin Islands job as government attorney for a Jewish constituent named Eli Baer. Island Police Director Michael J. Nolan shortly reported that CWA funds were being diverted to the purchase of refrigerator parts, the repair of Government House radios, the hiring of taxicabs for parades. At once Attorney Baer set out to investigate the administration of public funds in the Islands. He turned up screaming with 101 charges of graft, waste and corruption. A refrigerator salesman mysteriously committed suicide but, sifted by two Interior Department...
...following year an operation stiffened her right ankle and a week later another operation stiffened her left ankle. Those operations corrected her club-footedness. But, although the deformities of the knee were overcome, the right knee "was practically flail." Determined to repair Miss T. S. to the utmost, Dr. Truslow stiffened her floppy right leg at the knee...