Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looks pretty bad for me right now, if I don't get back don't worry about me, you will know that I went down fighting for Uncle Sam and the good old U.S.A. One thing, I will help fix it so none of my sister's sons will ever have to go to war. When we get through with these Axis powers this time, they will never be able to bring war on anybody else. . . . "I hope you get this letter. I probably won't be writing you again soon...
...taken away by a friendly Administration because of the necessities of war. After Pearl Harbor, labor surrendered the right to strike, and for the most part has kept its promise. Since then WLB has had a clear directive from Mr. Roosevelt to stabilize whatever wages are in dispute, to fix a firm ceiling over the upper brackets. Because some war industries are amiably disposed to grant wage boosts which they can pass along to the Government, an interdepartmental committee* will keep an eagle eye on the 95% of the wages not in dispute. Except in the rare cases where management...
...activity can be artificially increased if more bacteria are mixed with legume seed and planted with it. This process is called soil inoculation. Farmers buy the inoculating bacteria in cans of moist humus or bottles of sugary jelly. Enough bacteria for an acre cost from 25? to 40?, will fix from 100 to 200 lb. of nitrogen. This is equivalent...
While undergraduates fix their attention on the war, the Faculty has before it a proposal that would undermine Harvard education. Already it has adopted a ruling to limit tutorial instruction this summer to Senior honors candidates, and is considering the proposal that tutorial in the future be given only to men in Group IV and above. Although some Faculty members hope that the latter proposal will not be adopted, action is necessary to ensure its defeat. The main hope of intelligent self-education must not be killed by the war-time trend toward spoon-feeding students with science...
...nothing at all, because his interpretative range is clearly limited. But after the magnificent Koussevitzky performances of this season, a faultlessly prepared feast of succulent classics salted down with as many novelties as could be played without losing balance, this added literary proof of "Koussy's" musical scholarship should fix his claim to the title of America's most versatile and talented director, what Carlyle would have called the Hero as Conductor...