Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indeed, it seemed reasonable to believe that no academic course of any kind began until 1638, and it was this year that Pierce in his "History of Harvard University" said that "historians fix as the date of the foundation of the college." Early almanacs were accustomed to place the foundation in the year...
...Whereas, I find, from my investigation, that, in order to stabilize domestic prices and to protect the foreign commerce against the adverse effect of depreciated foreign currencies, it is necessary to fix the weight of the gold dollar at 15 5/21 grains nine-tenths fine...
...therefore, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States . . . do hereby-proclaim, order, direct, declare and fix the weight of the gold dollar...
...hailed with relief by all students of the University, both undergraduates and graduates, for it means the end of an unfortunate economy measure which has hampered the progress of scholarship since September, 1932. It has seemed incredible that of all the possible ways of saving money, Harvard should fix upon the closing of the library, the very heart of the University. It has seemed even more incredible that it should persist in the measure long after its error had been almost universally recognized...
...world, come home for a month in the summer, if they are not too far away. In Montenegro Adamic heard a story which he says illustrates the Montenegrin's two great virtues: A man about to be shot was asked if he had ever been in a worse fix. Yes, he answered, once-"when a man came to see me from afar and I was so poor that I had nothing in the house to offer him." Adamic was offered and refused the Jugoslavian Order of the White Eagle, afterward had a mutually cold interview with King Alexander, whom...