Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sheehan, a dapper man of 50, appeared with eight pairs of lifelike, flesh tinted, before-&-after models of faces which he had repaired, and two similar pairs of hands. He displayed colored lantern slides of dozens of before-&-after faces. Lastly he ran off a colored movie* of an operation to repair a young woman's paralyzed features. The policemen grunted and whistled as they saw Dr. Sheehan inject novocaine and slice the conscious girl's head from eyebrow to ear, nick a rent at the corner of her lips. The girl's chest heaved...
...same, said he, is true for almost any plastic operation-removal of moles, repair of harelips, remodeling of noses, reconstruction of jaws, replacement of fingernails, destruction of scars, counterfeiting of fingertips. For fingertips he uses skin from the abdomen...
...trough. But people are not hogs and hence relief is a very difficult, complex affair. What makes it even more so is the relatively small number of jobless who once made a living with their heads instead of their hands-white-collar folk who are too proud to repair streets, too sensitive to sit at home eating their hearts out on the dole. The relief administrator's problem is to find occupation for them which is socially useful, yet does not compete with private business. Two winters ago the nation had a sample of the lengths to which relief...
...often praised it for abolishing child labor. But it is dear to him for other reasons as well. He promised the U. S. a new order, social and economic. Most of his Administration's acts have not, however, attempted to set up such an order but rather to repair the old order, to rebalance what was out of balance, to rescue isolated groups from distress. But NRA alone, conceived principally as a Recovery measure, was a man-sized attempt to produce a new social and economic order, affecting everyone's method of earning a living. Under...
...sleep. She has never been taught to read. Her lecherous, spying old father-in-law comes in to charge her with being as cold as a cold fish to her spouse. Because of her there is no heir to the Izmailov name. The puling Zinovi is called hurriedly to repair a break in a far-away milldam. Before he leaves Katerina has to bow low before him, swear to be faithful in his absence...