Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front, the sac caused the eye to protrude; in back, it throbbed against the skull, wore down the bone. The throbbing produced the noises in his head. At the university, the noises were picked up by a microphone, electrically amplified so that they resounded through a spacious auditorium. Surgical repair of the damaged artery was deemed necessary to relieve Miner Slocum of his trouble...
...when Franklin Roosevelt began promising the country light wines & beer, California wine-men formed a Grape-Growers League (now the Wine Institute) and hired a tiny, hard-working Scotsman, Harry Arthur Caddow, as secretary-manager to help repair the damage of the Prohibition years. Today California makes 97% of U. S. wine and the Wine Institute represents the producers of 75% of California's wine. Little Harry Caddow, still the Wine Institute's secretary-manager, has a hard job getting his temperamental French, Italian, German, Swiss, Hungarian, Armenian and Scottish members to hang together. Biggest Institute wineries...
Under the National Housing Act of 1934, an individual could borrow up to $2,000 from a bank-with 20% of the principal guaranteed by the Government -to improve, repair or modernize his house. He could borrow up to $16,000 from a bank to build a new house-at 5% (in some cases 6%) interest, with the total mortgage guaranteed by the Government for a premium of at least .5% when the principal did not exceed 80% of the estimated value of the property. And ''V nited dividend corporations could get insurance on mortgages...
...effort to repair a break in the pipe line when runs from the Charles River to the Eliot House condenser, city workers yesterday afternoon dug a ten foot hole in front of Winthrop House, and employed a gasoline pump to draw off the escaping flood...
...ambitious crusade, in which the restoration of the merit system was only one aim. Still suffering from a 22% pay cut, the teachers were out to gain the salary restorations that nearly every other major U. S. city has already made to teachers. They were out also to repair the butchery of the Chicago school system-denounced by such Titans in education as University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins and Dean Charles Hubbard Judd -which has gained for Chicago's schools the reputation of being the poorest and most expensive...