Word: faucet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Perón," said Dr. Ivanissevich, "never leaves a faucet running more than is absolutely necessary. President Perón, when he leaves a room, puts out all the lights himself. In this way he saves money which would otherwise go abroad to pay for coal and oil. General Perón is also very careful about his clothes. You will never see a spot of dirt or cigarette ash on his suit, and that is not simply because his servants remove the stain. It is because he does not soil his clothes. When a suit gets dirty...
...booth. Must one be crowded into a cramped, unventilated closet, use a mouthpiece which has been breathed into by thousands of people? Why not a two-way loudspeaker instead? Lincoln Steffens advised his son, who was worrying about what remained to be done, that nobody had yet made a faucet that didn't leak. Well, it no longer leaks−but why not do something about the faucet itself? Is it necessary...
...Patch a Faucet. The horseradish was only the beginning. As the years passed, other gifts and other boys came to the school. Many of the students were boarders from out of town. The little principal who had started 50 simply ("No one will graduate unless he can set a pane of glass, patch a faucet, and has a year of Latin") found himself getting famous. When the town's contribution to the school's funds ceased, in 1924, Boyden went out and raised money to make up the difference. Governors, judges and college presidents began sending their sons...
...lived with their nine children in two rooms. The eldest girl had just borne an illegitimate baby. Tattered cotton coverlets lay in disorder on the only three beds. Chunks of plaster had fallen from the walls, exposing the laths. There was no heat; water came from a faucet in the yard. The young Negro wife giggled in embarrassment, twiddled the wick of the oil lamp that furnished the only light...
Yesterday afternoon James T. Mulhern, an honest and God-fearing working man, was on his way from his plumbing shop in Watertown to repair a dangerously leaking faucet in Somerville. THIS MAN WAS PREVENTED FROM GETTING TO HIS PLACE OF WORK BY A ROWDY BAND OF STUDENTS FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY WHO BLOCKED MT. AUBURN STREET FOR CLOSE TO AN HOUR. Such action by the students is in direct violation of the 1st, 5th, 7th and 13th amendments to THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. The consequences of their actions are grave. The faucet which James Mulhern was to repair became rapidly worse...