Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked that the Communications Act of 1934 be amended to give FCC authority: 1) to "review, approve or disapprove all Bell System policies and practices promulgated by the central management group"; 2) to "permit regulation of the Western Electric Co. by the FCC as a public utility"; 3) to "fix temporary rates whenever it appears that the return on net book cost is excessive"; 4) "to regulate Bell System financing"; 5) "to limit the scope of Bell System activities to the communications field" (Bell System at various times has been involved in radio, cinema, artificial larynges, photoelectric eyes...
...Town, an eating place on Dallas' Main Street. Sculptor Townsend never tried modeling until one day a few months ago, when the mud in his back yard suddenly looked malleable and inviting. He fooled around, did busts of Washington and Lincoln from pictures, but he could not fix the ears right. On his way home from work he dropped in at the Dallas Art Institute, asked Instructor Harry Lee Gibson how ears were done. On Instructor Gibson's advice, Sculptor Townsend did his next modeling from life -a bust of his pretty wife, Marie-and submitted...
...Longeverne (Jean Murat) are more than willing to set an example in neighborly love. In the children's war, the most telling blow is to snip off all a captive's buttons, send him home holding up his pants. One strategist discovers that the way to fix that is to fight without clothes until a war chest of replacement buttons can be accumulated. The children discover what an angry futility war is. Director Daroy discovers the French way to end such a story: a chance remark about the weather turns an inter-village love feast into a neat...
...offices of Secretary and Treasurer and in their own elective positions; to remove any class officers or any of their own members; to conduct all elections to fill vacancies in their own number and determine within the limits herein prescribed the procedure for conducting such elections; to fix rules for the conduct of their own meetings and determine the number necessary for a quorum thereat; in all other matters concerning the class and its affairs not specifically mentioned herein, to determine what action shall be taken and to act on behalf of the class...
...strong instinct of the Dartmouth student body to be cordial and welcome alumni and friends to full participation in Carnival festivities has made it necessary for the College to prevent the overcrowding of fraternity dances and to fix the responsibility for invited guests by requiring that admission be restricted to those extended formal invitation by the fraternity through its officers...