Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Numerous suggestions have been made to relieve the congestion of the courts and generally to repair and lubricate the entire machinery of enforcement, while the thrifty Mr. Mellon has long advocated a revision of the Border laws with an increase in the size of the patrol. But all these recommendations, though necessary as parallel measures of reform, fail to strike to the heart of the problem, and serve only to strengthen the impression that the Commission has somehow evaded the issue...
...Venice in the year 1600 a goldsmith gets two commissions: to make a coronet for the French Count de Senlis and to repair a silver whip for a Russian nobleman. The coronet is made, the whip repaired; they are carried off to France and Russia respectively. Around these two symbols of aristocracy an epic tale unfolds...