Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...give exquisite pain. It is much to say of any profession that it reduces the amount or the intensity of human pain, for pain is an unmixed evil, and whoever abates it for multitudes or for one individual, is a real benefactor. As life advances, dentistry is able to repair the loss of teeth caused by wear, accident, and disease; that is, dentistry can supply artificial teeth singly, in groups, or in sets, and by doing so can check or in part prevent the dilapidation of the human countenance by age, and provide the indispensable means of chewing food. Thereby...
Engineer Leavitt, of the Cambridge Bridge Commission, said, "The matter now rests with the Bridge Commissioners of Boston and Cambridge. Anything done to repair the old bridge should be done by the city governments...
City Engineer Jackson is preparing an estimate of the cost of putting the bridge in safe repair, which will be submitted at the next meeting of the Bridge Commission on November 26. It seems probable, judging from statements made by him, and by Mayor Wardwell in an interview last Tuesday, that the old bridge will merely be strengthened, and that a new bridge will not be built for ten or fifteen years...
...elements is concerned. The Faculty members may possibly be said to be at one pole and the undergraduate representatives at the other, with the graduate members voting with either element according to the merits of the question. The machine itself does not seem to be in serious need of repair. It is the kind of work expected of it, and the consequences arising from the necessity for such work, that have raised the question of a change in the method of carrying on its work...
...near the Yard will miss his picturesque figure, like that of a handsome Andrew Jackson, in long raincoat and soft hat, striding along with the familiar swing, and flinging across the way the brusque greeting, "How d'ye, neighbor?" The College Chapel will miss him, whither he used to repair daily to take what he liked to call his "moral bath, as needful, sir, as the other." He was the impersonation of health, vigor, and purity, moral as well as physical and intellectual. He was an Elizabethan man in his qualities and temperament: a poet, above all, of keen susceptibilities...