Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trust Funds,' I should have stood up and shouted, 'Shut up, you pilferer, there is a seminary classmate of yours out in China with his work crippled because the money you collected in this congregation to go to him was used by you and your vestry to repair the chimney or to pay your salary...
Other CWA projects now in progress: 4,464 Indians to repair their own houses on Indian Reservations; 1,104 to excavate prehistoric Indian mounds for the Smithsonian Institution; 211 men to pull up seaside and swamp morning-glories, hosts of the sweet potato weevil; 198 men to remove debris from Alaskan rivers so salmon can swim up and spawn; 94 Indians to transport snowshoe rabbits to those of the Kodiak Islands that need to be restocked; 1,112 men to eradicate phony peach; a group to wash Manhattan's civic statues; unemployed colored girls to keep house for destitute families...
...Only a tangle of smooth tar roads and buried sewer pipes out in the hinterland, and a railroad terminal that is a fitting mausoleum of their would-be grandeur remain to tell of their experiments in financial wizardry. Nothing, that is, except the city's principal banks shattered beyond repair, with the able assistance of the bankers...
...England. There is no reason why a kindly athletic association should buy every piece of clothing and equipment for members of certain teams while others like the tennis players furnish their own. There is no need to keep the Weld boathouse open all winter with employees paid merely to repair the shells. There is no reason why athletes should not pay for their own trophies and sweaters at the end of the season. There is no reason why the crew should enjoy a two-week's sojourn at Red Top every spring...
...have been found in the bathrooms of many of the Houses where not only the walls have cracked but the floors have swelled also, as a result of improper waterproofing underneath the showers. In the rooms beneath the bathrooms water has leaked through from the floor above causing much repair work. Investigation has revealed that inferior waterproofing material was used and that it failed to give the necessary protection...