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Word: fixedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jaffe said last night he was able to fix the time of his observations at exactly 11:50 o'clock by consulting his chronological diary, and the date by recalling that he was clearing his head from Chemistry 5 cramming and a few beers at Cronin's. The only positive fact about the silhouette, he said, seen at approximately 200 feet, was the outline of skates tied around the neck with laces, outlined against the white...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Search For Gardiner In River Area | 2/12/1947 | See Source »

...Denver hotel on a lecture tour, Columnist Randolph Churchill encountered some faulty plumbing-to his personal annoyance but patriotic satisfaction. He complained, later reported his conversation with the plumber sent to fix matters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Chapter & Verse | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...elephants of the Bertram Mills circus in London were in a painful fix with fibrositis-thickening of the trunk muscles. A correspondent cabled the news to the U.S. and added a guess. The elephants' affliction, he reported, was doubtless due to lack of peanuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Great Goober Crisis | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...York World-Telegram said last week: "The threat of a basketball fix has local colleges so concerned that players are closeted in a hotel room on game days and denied the use of the telephone . . . to keep their players free of association, or even casual contact, with gamblers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For the Love of the Game | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...football, headlines still went to Alvin Paris, a tinhorn gambler who entertained players with partying chorus girls, and tried to fix the National League's championship game between the Bears and the Giants (TIME, Dec. 23). He was due to be sentenced next week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For the Love of the Game | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

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