Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compasses that pointed crazily to East and West. Beside him stolid Dutch Evert Van Dyk held the controls, stared straight ahead. In the cabin behind him Radioman John Stannage frantically worked key and dials. Navigator J. Patrick Saul searched in vain for a patch of sky that he might fix his sextant to a star. Now their latest radio bearing showed them 175 miles east of the Cape, when they had thought it only 75 miles...
...importance of this research rests on the fact that it helps to fix the value of an electrical constant of great importance in theoretical physics...
...British Labor Party's Daily Herald played it down to less than half a column. Britons of all parties seemed uneasy lest a European bloc against Eng land emerge. Since Scot MacDonald is a Socialite on cordial terms with the Second (Socialist) International, he was placed in an awkward fix last week. For French, German and indeed all Socialist papers on the Continent hailed "The European Union" as a braingrandchild of the Internationale. (M. Briand. of course, is a Socialist...
...Government air service officials, were assembled to view the year's accomplishments of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. U. S.-supported research body. Mr. Stout saw hope for the becalmed market in private-use planes: ''Things are going to be different. We are going to fix it so a man can take a couple of lessons on Friday and fly his plane home on Monday without the Department of Commerce saying anything about it. . . . "* Guided by Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames, provost of Johns Hopkins University and chairman of the N. A. C. A., the visitors...
...such courses as Biology A, Chemistry A, and French 2 the cumulative theory tends to fix the Midyear grade as the April mark which goes into the office. For instance, a man receiving a C at Midyear's must get an A or an E in the April examination in order to change his standing in the Dean's Office. This situation destroys, in a large measure, the value of the April records as an index of a student's progress, and relegates the examinations to a mere breaking up of the term's work and a routine check...