Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students, but accounts college chapels and inter-collegiate athletics subjects of lesser weight. On these, the thesis runs, the revolt wastes its strength before touching the momentous concerns of the hour. While stupidity in political management and inefficiency in governmental administration remain flagrant, the Times would advise students to fix their attention on the sore spots of the nation...
...That the amounts contributed should be a moderate, voluntary charge on the giver's current income and should bear such relation to his whole income as he should fix for himself...
...Quiz makes TIME twice as valuable to me. I find it is just what I need to fix in my mind quickly and permanently the information I have gleaned in my perusal of the magazine. I congratulate you on the innovation, and thank you for the additional help and pleasure it gives...
...Edward VII: "[The Mordaunt divorce trial] occurred in February, 1870. ... Sir Charles Mordaunt had instituted the proceedings to fix the paternity of the child. . . . The Prince (later Edward VII), it was conceded, visited young Lady Mordaunt frequently prior to the birth of the child. . . . Immediately following the baby's birth she made a confession to her husband, implicating the Prince of Wales, Lord Cole, Sir Frederick Johnston and others. . . . Notwithstanding a jury verdict completely exonerating Edward . . . the scandal touched Alexandra a little more than any other...
Both these proposals were rejected by the miners, who made a counter proposal to modify the second offer by providing for a conciliation board without an umpire to fix the wages for 1927-30. The operators rejected this offer on the grounds that without an umpire the Board might deadlock...