Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Responsibility for Harlan County's labor war was hard to fix. Governor Sampson blamed everything on "Reds and Communists," though Col. Carrell later said he could find no evidence to support this theory. Sheriff Blair accused disgruntled "left wing" union miners for the fatal ambush. Evarts' Chief of Police Asa Cusick insisted the deputy sheriffs guarding the mines were really to blame. The mine operators ingenuously pointed to "adverse freight rates" as the ultimate cause of trouble...
...hence must be charged. The first point is not only economically wrong but is unfair. Certainly no more than absolutely necessary should be charged. The second point admits another fallacy on which the authorities are working. They have taken Dunster and Lowell houses as criteria on which to fix the basic charge. These two houses had the pick of the University at their disposal and were filled, in the main, with men well above the economic average of Harvard College. Rather than make the average high a slight risk should have been taken. The authorities themselves have admitted that there...
...before you turn the 48th page you feel on closer terms with the inhabitants than if you had been one of them yourself. Like every such community Tiverton Square has its social boss, Lady Poley; its most prominent citizen, Sir John Melhuish; its professional gossip, Miss Leggatt; its Citizen Fix-It, Colonel Parkin-thorpe; its shady businessman, Sir Herbert Livewright; its lady-with-a-past, Mrs. Gillingham; its rank & file of unremarkable characters who in real life would be of interest only to themselves. It is Author Mackail's especial triumph that he raises their realism to the plane...
...Aviation in the U. S. has been stagnating. . . . We are all copying. . . . None of us are building the plane that the public wants to buy, and that proves we are standing still. . . . We are going to fix it so a man can take a couple of lessons on Friday and fly his plane home on Monday...
...statute. Fortnight ago it was the nut, bolt & rivet men whose trade association was dissolved by a U. S. court (TIME, March 30). Last week it was the sugar and steel industries upon which Attorney General Mitchell opened fire. The steelmakers, he charged, had for ten years conspired to fix the price of steel rails at $43 per ton. But far more spectacular was his suit in the U. S. District Court, New York City, to dissolve the Sugar Institute, whose 50 member-corporations refine more than 85% of the nation's granulated sugar. The petition charged that...