Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stout "SkyCar" does not yet fill the skies. No model of it was visible at last fortnight's national air show in Detroit. But Designer Stout hopes "to fix it so that a man can take a couple of lessons on Friday and fly his plane home on Monday." The commercial "plane that will support itself in the air, financially as well as mechanically," will be developed within two years. The private plane, he snorts, has been a "flop...
...purpose from judicial sight until today the 14th Amendment constitutes the Federal Government's major control over most State legislation. By it the Supreme Court becomes the censor of all important economic and social experiments within the States. Does Kansas want to set up a compulsory Labor Court to fix wages and outlaw strikes? The Supreme Court, under the second "due process" clause, says it may not. Does Wisconsin want to penalize Pullman Co. for letting down empty upper berths? The Supreme Court says Wisconsin would unconstitutionally deprive the company of its "liberty." May Florida fix certain below-cost freight...
...such a fix most impresarios would give up in despair. But Giulio Gatti-Casazza, who until this year has run the Metropolitan without deficit, did not sit back dejectedly. He issued an appeal for the Company to save itself. He begged every member, singers and stage hands alike, to sacrifice himself regardless of contracts and rights. Said he: "When a house is on fire one does not send for lawyers or notaries. . . . I offer to serve [the Metropolitan] in the coming season with necessary reductions of salary which circumstances require, and even without salary if this be necessary...
...Mental Radio* Upton Sinclair described a great number of experiments in which Mrs. Sinclair as "percipient" seemed to have telepathic powers. He would draw six or more pictures on separate sheets of paper and fix his attention on each in turn. Meanwhile, at a safe distance, percipient Mrs. Sinclair would let her mind "go blank" until she felt knowledge stirring within her. Then she would draw what she felt her husband had drawn. Sometimes he would wrap his drawings in opaque green paper before he put them in envelopes. In such cases he would sit by Mrs. Sinclair while...
...which were needed to name the 16 companies and 27 individuals whom Lawyers Fly & Rice desired to restrain from further combination in restraint of trade. For four years, said the United States in Fly-Rice words, the Institute had been operating an elaborate and far-reaching scheme to fix high prices for refined sugar. On 44 counts the Institute was guilty, said the United States, of conspiracy, monopoly, coercion. Item: its members have blacklisted certain warehouses, wholesale grocers for refusing to cooperate; they have forced brokers and others in the sugar trade to open their books to the Institute...