Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perennial joke of "next May, for example" no longer applies to the Freshman Advisers, and graduates and upperclassmen look to these new men and their new chief to vindicate Dean Leighton's theories and repair this very loose cog in the machinery of the University...
Since the start of the 14-months'-old war this line has been bombed in 1,300 places. Speedy repair work has held the periods of service interruptions to a minimum, and last week trains were still running, albeit irregularly. Most remarkable testimony to Chinese ingenuity was that the 680-mile run from Canton to Hankow has been shortened to 36 hours instead of the old 45-hour schedule. Moreover, in spite of war, and because of heavy war supply shipment, the line made money; net profit last fiscal year...
With hundreds of trees uprooted or damaged beyond hope of repair, Harvard's far-famed botanical collections at the Arnold Arboretum suffered "tremendous damage," according to its Supervisor, Elmer D. Merrill, professor of Botany...
...plantings for which the Arboretum is best known popularly, such as the lilacs, cherries, crabapples and shrubs, are not severely damaged, and pruning will repair what has been done; but this does not minimize the total effect of the destruction...
...free public trade schools to teach youngsters to fly an airplane, repair an automobile, refurbish a woman's face. But until last week there was no free public school for training workers to serve the nation with its prime necessity-food. Last week New York City's Board of Education announced that a week hence it would open the first Food Trades Vocational High School...