Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bowling Green game was the consolation round of the 1949 National Invitation Tournament. Bradley was trailing by seven points in the last minute of play when a Bradley substitute, who was not in on the fix, was sent...
Saul Feinberg, second-year law student, will not be among those registering at the Law School this week. Accused of conspiring to fix a Madison Square Garden basketball game, he is free on $10,000 bail, and awaiting trial this fall in New York's Court of General Sessions...
...breathe. The things we do. The things we say. Our books. Our papers. Our theater. Our movies. Our radio and television. The way we behave. The interests we have. The values we fix...
...minded juries are handing out purse-popping awards in accident cases. Accidents are growing because there are more cars on the road, and too many motorists are driving too fast and too carelessly. The cost of car repairs has also shot up, and new cars are more difficult to fix than pre-war models. For example, to replace a front fender on a 1940 Chevrolet cost $18.80 for parts and labor ten years ago; the same job on last year's model costs $42.50. As a result, in spite of six rate increases in the last seven years, casualty...
Then he heard about other foreign colleges and schools that needed help. "Never had much of a chance to read books myself," he would say, "and I appreciate how much they mean to people who are in the same fix." In his spare time, he begged books wherever he could-duplicates from libraries, old books from professors; he bought discarded textbooks from the state for a dollar...