Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hand Salutes. The ending of the all-important parley, held in order to fix the terms upon which the Experts' Plan is to be operated, was no milk and water affair. Statesmen puffed out their chests, sighed with relief; then a highly dramatic incident recharged the air with electrical emotion. The delegates had signed the final protocol of the agreement and were somewhat sheepishly regarding one another with a "that's that" expression on their faces, when Premier MacDonald started the electricity by shaking hands all round. The paw of Chancellor Marx he held long and earnestly...
...maintain that the present hypocritical attitude toward the whole question of prohibition would be greatly relieved by having Congress fix a maximum alcoholic content based upon science and sound reasoning, thereafter leaving every state to enact any statute it pleases with regard to regulation of the traffic in light wines and beer within that alcoholic content, so that the state that desires light wines and beer within the alcoholic content prescribed by Congress may also have what it desires...
...real issue of the Republican Party in connection with taxes, which have so helped to pay this, is that we believe in the principle of taxing people in accordance with their ability to pay. So we fix a rate of maximum productivity and minimum disturbance. It is really an issue of honest taxation against dishonest taxation. Our opponents play up a lot to the poor and downcast and against the rich, but they really leave the door wide open to let the rich man through. Our plan of taxation is not so much a question of who pays the taxes...
...increased use of the Union during the past year which threatens to overburden the equipment, the Governing. Board has decided to fix a definite limit to the membership, according to an announcement made last night by the Graduate Secretary of the Union. For next year the limit of membership has been fixed...
...with a modern Yale lock on it. You see, in the old days when there was compulsory chapel, if the bell didn't ring the boys didn't have to get up. And so, out of deviltry, when they were coming home late at night, they would try to fix the bell so that they could sleep in the morning. But there is no point...