Word: revamped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Proletariat. Finally there is not space in which to note that Wall Street is inclined to sell distinctly short on Austria-as is shown by the fact that it has recently proved impossible for the Government at Vienna to borrow in Manhattan $100,000,000 urgently needed to revamp Austria's state railways, telegraphs, telephones...
...course many factions and many feelings were stirred up. High officials of the Army and Navy were angered by his language toward them. Some congressmen were aroused to a feeling that something must be done to revamp our national defense. The public and the politicians all viewed with alarm one aspect or another of the Mitchell statement...
...Assemblies. Last week the world of diplomacy grew crosseyed with looking simultaneously towards Geneva and Aix-les-Bains. It was all due to the Protocol.* At Geneva the French were trying to revamp the Protocol before the League. At Aix, where Premier Baldwin is vacationing, France and England were prepairing to call in Germany to draw up a Security Pact,† which would largely take the place of the League Protocol. The World stood by and wondered, as statesmen-accoucheurs labored to bring forth a robust infant, Status Quo, in two places at once...
...been jeered at by the multitude. Mr. Ford reprinted the jeers as an effective and cheap form of advertising. Now, however, a change has apparently come over the Detroiter. His leisure he spends in reviving old-fashioned dances and music. The rising aesthetic impulse has finally led him to revamp the new model of his cars with the idea of making them more seemly to the eye. Last week the Ford Co. announced for next year "more drastic changes in our output than any made since...
...disadvantage of the many, and that all students should be taught English and learn to know the literature of the country; above all education should be broadened to bring into close contact with actual life, whereas the New World desires to polish off her instruction, the Old World must revamp hers...