Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plainly, he would have liked to say much more. But that night, relaxed in the midst of his family, General McNaughton said that in Britain he had had a bout of influenza and that low blood pressure followed. There was, he said, nothing organically wrong that rest would not fix. Already he had sent for his skis, planned a long session on the Seigniory Club's snow trails. The reporters wondered who had talked with Andy McNaughton between interviews...
...inferences from old truths. Its subject matter is not exclusively Christian. It is common to all religions. What Lewis contributes is a childlike simplicity (not to be confused with naivete) that is the essence of the Christian spirit, and which pierces all obscuring subterfuges of thought and language to fix and define the simple moral and religious points he is making. He also contributes a swift humor that humanizes what might otherwise be bald homilies...
...preparing himself for the role which Vittorio Emanuele has assumed in Italy. For months, a subtle campaign has been developing in the Allied and neutral press, seeking to whitewash the young King and the discredited Rumanian royal family. Twice in recent weeks Mihai has called in Mahiu, presumably to fix up an approach to Britain. Both he and Queen Mother Helen have taken pains to visit U.S. airmen who have been forced down and sumptuously "imprisoned" in Rumania's mountains...
...consistently endeavored to fix the companies' rates on the much-loved New Deal theory (from Brandeis) of "prudent investment."† Accordingly, FPC j now set the rate base value of the com pany at $33,712,526, the return at 6?%, and ordered rates slashed from...
...Thee our hopes we fix...