Word: repairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suddenly inspired, the victim enlists, is despatched to an Army camp. He lives in wooden shacks, built as temporary barracks during the War, looking like a collection of senile packing boxes, or in tents. When not drilling, he is called on to repair worn-out plumbing systems and putter around creaking stables. Many an officer, living with his family at such a camp, has had to spend his own money to make his house livable. Having no Garden of Eden, the U. S. defenders take their fun where they find it. At Fort Douglas, they have invented the game...
...thus considered another "scrap of paper", the whole fabric of our peaceful ideals will be shown to be nothing more than that. Yet we have seen fit to preach peace abroad. The accusation is obvious, and most of the facts substantiate it outwardly. America has done little enough to repair the damage of the war. It was previously hoped that at least we meant well, if we acted ineffectively. The debt settlements are evidently unsatisfactory to some nations, but the senators who justified them argued that our terms were generous. What becomes of our vaunted generosity and idealism, slightly shown...
With the change the organization of the college chapel as a church--will persistent at Yale and Williams--was given up. Appleton Chapel is not the home of an organization of believers, but a religious edifice to which any person religiously inclined may repair for devotions...
...invading squad of Orange and Black players is scheduled to arrive in Boston early this morning, and will try out the Stadium turf at 10 o'clock. Following a short drill the Tigers will repair to the Belmont Country Club to rest up for the big clash tomorrow...
Meanwhile Sir Alan Cobham had been forced by a faulty spark plug to volplane to earth near Nuneaton. Deftly he skimmed beneath a high tension line carrying 6,000 volts. Then he discovered that he had no wrench with which to repair his motor. Vexed, he walked three miles until he found an autoist who loaned him a suitable wrench. His plane repaired, he sped to Manchester and civic glory. Meanwhile a Manchester crowd, informed by telephone of the contretemps, burst into incredulous laughter, refused for some minutes to believe that the great hero-airman of Britain could have come...