Word: overhauling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these officers committed harakiri, but the rest were alive and well last week. Every Japanese knew that the Radical-Militarists were still assassination-minded in case the new Cabinet of hard, spry little onetime Foreign Minister Koki Hirota does not give Japan the drastic social and economic overhaul which they demand...
...distinguish father and son. He studied finance at Wharton School, worked for the Manhattan accounting firm of Haskins & Sells, helped Charles Evans Hughes investigate New York insurance companies. In 1906 Roosevelt I named him assistant auditor of Puerto Rico. Three years later he was called home to overhaul Philadelphia's accounting system, became chief accountant in the office of the city controller. He did so good a job that in a few years he was recognized as an international authority on municipal finance...
Poles had just dismantled their elaborate snowplow equipment for the regular spring overhaul last week when suddenly the first May blizzard since 1685 overwhelmed Central and Western Poland with from six to 20 inches of snow. Canceled were all parades on the Polish National Holiday. Prosperous Poles went Maying in sledges piled with fur lap robes...
Last week he moved out and called in Shinto priests to chase away any possible evil spirits with prayers and water. Just to be certain, he had plumbers overhaul the drains. The priests calculated May 20 the most auspicious day for him to move in again. On that day his wife ceremoniously carried a potted plant into the house and dauntless General Hayashi followed...
Astonished by their own victory, Labor leaders last week promised to match Vienna's shell-scarred apartment houses with 100,000 small houses, promised to clear London's slums, overhaul its hospitals and schools, "build a worthier and nobler city...