Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both University Hall and the Student Council recognize that this situation is inflammable, that there may be heated charges of discrimination if, for instance, a University policeman tells a soapbox speaker to move on. Therefore the Deans and Councilmen are meeting to fix a set of interim instructions...
...Tell [the people] the truth. If you make a promise, keep it. When you need money, tell them how much you need and why you need it. Try to fix upon a quota and give them time to pay it. The people appreciate considerate treatment. They will follow the pastor who shows them that he deserves their regard and their support. But do not make the mistake of putting money before doctrine. The Lord sent us to teach, not to pass the basket...
...stopped his correspondence, but after V-E day he began to hear again from his friends. "They had nothing but paper, paper, and more paper-they even wrapped the babies in paper." One woman wrote that she "had nothing left to fix and nothing to fix it with." McAllister began to do what he could...
...trouble with classics is that they are unread, and often thought to be unreadable. Somerset Maugham thought he could fix that. He had picked "the ten greatest novels."* But he wasn't satisfied with just picking them. Mr. Maugham, blurbed the John C. Winston Co., thought "that the classics would be more widely read ... if they were not too long or too slow in tempo." He pepped things up "by deleting long wearisome passages...
...professional politicos. Most Iowans liked his record in the legislature. He had fought the governor on school legislation, had opposed Blue's stringent labor laws. When the returns came in, Bill Beardsley was the busiest man in Iowa. He was back of his soda fountain, helping fix the sundaes, Cokes and coffee for his farm neighbors...