Word: revamp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sent to a mental hospital. The hospital treated him, decided that he was sane, and sent him back to jail. Thereupon his lawyer called in a top-ranking Pittsburgh psychiatrist. Dr. Yale David Koskoff, senior neurosurgeon at Montefiore Hospital, suggested a prefrontal lobotomy (brain nerve-cutting) to revamp Wright's "psychopathic personality." That was all right with the prisoner-and with the court...
...Send Us Coffee." But there was no time to revamp systems. To take the edge off the crisis, the U.S. threw in additional merchant ships to carry supplies. During the next 2½ months, the U.S. will send over 1,000,000 tons of food to Germany. But the Germans were a difficult people to help. When one of them was told last week that the U.S. is sending wheat, he sneered: "Wheat we've got plenty. Why don't you send us coffee...
Many an old-line Navy officer wouldn't have given it another thought. Rear Admiral James Lemuel Holloway Jr. did. Not long afterwards, Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal put Holloway at the head of a ten-man board (including two civilian educators) to revamp Navy edu. cation. The Navy had realized that it would desperately need officers for the postwar fleet-far more than the Naval Academy could turn...
...construction, when red brick and sandstone were originally mortered together on the corner of Boylston and Clarendon Streets in 1874. And this summer, after the hotel had for nearly 70 years catered to what an 1880 advertisement called "influential persons of taste," the University invested another $25,000 to revamp the marble-floored hallways, high-ceilings bedchambers, and tiny-tubbed bathrooms, into suitable apartments for 115 couples who need, as well as a place to go to school, a place to live, in Post War year...
...budget was the pending $3,750,000,000 U.S. loan. Without that, warned Dalton, Britain would have to cut imports sharply, revamp all figures, tighten trade controls. But the "if" grew less "iffy"; the bill for the loan was sent to the U.S. Senate floor last week with a 14-to-5 vote of approval by the Banking & Currency Committee...