Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year for TIME. I have done three years in succession, besides paying for six other subscriptions as Christmas presents to friends. I read the magazine with the utmost concentration, trying to fix in my memory, during two hours reading each week, the thousands of facts you furnish me in each issue. The mental effort, time and money I have always considered well invested...
...fix a focal point, Science selected eight prominent journals; measured the space they gave to a recent meeting in Philadelphia of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The eight sheets consumed 1,379% column-inches, of which the Boston Transcript took 347. Last stood the Philadelphia (where the meeting met) Evening Ledger with 74% column inches. The New York Times led Manhattan journals tabulated with 175% column inches; the World had 113%. Education and general science lumped led the subjects treated with 194%; astronomy stood second with...
...Bowers, a Minnesota farmer, was always having to sell more land to his wealthy neighbors, the Carews, in order to meet last month's bills. Once, the Carews forgot a payment, and the Bowers could not afford a new windmill, so Reef Bowers, pluperfect son, climbed up to fix the old one in the dark- that is where the story opens, with Reef lying in the farmhouse, "dreaming of pain." Downstairs, little Elsa Bowers decides to hate the Carews forever, especially Bayliss Carew, whose "cheeks and lips were like a raspberry. The Carew boy was a raspberry. Elsa giggled...
...they have been, merely to disclose whether the student did the reading. Such questions as "Which wife did Henry VIII call a 'Flemish mare'?" are out. Questions must be only on important points. That will emphasize them. The class discussion can then amplify them. The result should be to fix them in the student's memory. It is for the instructor to decide what is important and put it across. The questions on back work must be, to an even greater degree, confined to matters of importance. If they are not, the diligent student will be discouraged and confused...
Long ago?in the early spring of 1924?Congress embarked upon the task of succoring the farmer. Two plans were vigorously suggested: 1) the McNary-Haugen bill which provided for a huge Government brokerage corporation to buy the farmers' crops and virtually fix the market prices, operating expenses being paid by an equalization fee (crop tax), collected from the farmers; 2) the Norbeck-Burtness bill which would aid the agrarian by lending him Government money...