Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...future we as a nation are to espouse every damsel who would be kept, be she designing or just plain willing, we're going to find ourselves in a hell of a fix...
...there are two types of fungi: 1) parasites, which feed on living plants and animals; 2) saprophytes, which feed on dead organisms. Pleasant are some fungi, such as the mushrooms (commercially grown on horse manure) which decorate steaks. Valuable are others, like the bacteria which decompose dead organisms, fix nitrogen in the soil, promote fermentation.* Harmful to man are fungi which attack crops...
...Hearst was supposed to be hopping mad. This young Orson Welles had made for RKO an insulting movie about his life called Citizen Kane. Led by his official ministress to the movie capital, Columnist Lolly Parsons, many a Hearst favor-seeker sent word to The Chief that they could fix everything. Soon the machinery of Hollywood pressure began to throttle Citizen Kane...
...those days, and people made fewer engagements. However, old views of the "Colleges at Cambridge" show hands on the clock as late as 1790. They apparently even worked, as various hours may be seen in different pictures. The architects at Robinson Hall believe that the mechanism got out of fix early in the 19th century, and was never repaired. If this is the case, it shows exceedingly poor spirit in the Maintenance Department. An old alibi in the archives speaks of removing the machinery to the church opposite, but the church was not built until 1833, three years after...
...exciting: Bill King had said that life was made up of loving and making money, but it was a good deal more than that. Life was made up of letting the dog out, of hitting your thumb with the hammer when you were driving nails, of getting someone to fix the washer in the laundry faucet, of Christmas and friends to dinner. . . . It always seemed that, when I finished with one particular problem, there would be time to read or time to think-but there was always something else. . . . From the depths of memory a troubled tale emerges...