Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trenton, N. J., stands the New Jersey State Prison, isolated from the city by a 22-ft. wall. On top of the wall last week an electric wire needed repairing. An electrician leaned his ladder against the wall, went up to fix the wire. After him clambered four convicts, thrust him from the ladder, shot a guard atop the wall, dropped to the street outside. Before other guards knew what was happening they had disappeared around a corner, commandeered two automobiles and roared away...
...oversee the industrial life of the country, initiating major policies as to wages, purchases of raw materials, capital investment and what not. Scarcely a week passes but some new story comes out of Washington as to how Mr. Hoover has had somebody on the telephone and is attempting to fix this situation or that." ¶ A secretary was instructed to bring in little slips of paper and put them on President Hoover's desk last week. Curious visitors saw that they were inning-by-inning returns from the World Series baseball games in St. Louis. For the third game...
...spendthrift with a petulant wife, a gambler who dopes him to win a race. When the gambler is murdered after a misunderstanding with his confreres, his mistress inherits the horse, winters him on the farm where he was bred, enters him in the Kentucky Derby. Gamblers try to fix this race also; but Tommy Boy's owner has a stable boy cut a notch in the reins so that, when the jockey tries to hold him back, Tommy Boy breaks the reins, wins the race. Most race-track pictures sentimentalize both horses and humans even more than this...
...court is asked to try each defendant, fix his liability. Of the $21,000,000 damages sought, $13,000,000 is for impairment of surplus. At the end of 1929 Gillette had a surplus of $18,000,000. When it sold a bond issue last year a revised balance sheet was issued showing a surplus of only $5,000,000 (TiME, Oct. 27). The balance of the damages is for the loss claimed to have been caused when the directors ordered the company to buy 214,000 shares of its own stock at an allegedly excessive price. Some of this...
Near Los Angeles Mr. & Mrs. A. J. Tarpley were motoring with their two daughters, Marjorie, 3 mo., and Catherine, 2. At the top of a precipitous hill the motor coughed; Mr. & Mrs. Tarpley got out to fix it. As they walked to the front of the auto, its emergency brake slipped; it started backward toward the edge of a 200-ft. canyon. Mr. & Mrs. Tarpley held on hard, were dragged to the canyon, were forced to let go, saw the car careen and spin downward, killing Marjorie Tarpley, only bruising Catherine...