Word: fix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looks awful. It's in horrible shape. Why don't you get a WPA project down here and fix...
George Washington had the first pump in Virginia, while all others were still using sweeps and windlasses. It was a wooden pump; and one day it just wooden pump. The Virginians got so dirty (I did not say thirsty) for lack of water, that George was figuring how to fix it, when a "Good Neighbor" from Hide-out Park happened along, named Fuddy-Duddy Rosey. Said he, "All that pumps ever need, is priming. So I will hire 10 million able-bodied men to carry water in cute little May-baskets, from the Privy, Treasury to prime...
...Harry's Club, he couldn't resist going down to the old ship-yard just to take a look at his small cruising cutter. There it was tucked away in the corner of the big shed. It's bottom was rough and brown but a little work would fix it up, he thought--as he climbed over the side and stepped quietly into the cockpit. He put his hand on the tiller and moved it slowly back and forth. The compass read 247 degrees--west-south-west--the very direction he had followed coming home down the coast last summer...
...prize sentence ending "the Leftist Cabinet reorganized itself for a last-minute effort to crawl between the jaws of defeat and wrench out the tonsils of victory." While they are in there they ought to hammer a couple of nice little wooden pegs in the Eustachian tubes. That would fix them...
...rubbermen created the International Rubber Regulation Committee- a cartel that represents 98% of the world's rubber producers. The I. R. R. C.'s aims are two:1) to establish and maintain a base limit to rubber planting, 2) to fix quarterly quotas on the amount of this rubber that is marketable...