Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York apartment hotel builders have evaded the rigors of tenement specifications by pretending to construct authentic hotels. But in each pantry they have provided electric connections to which tenants could fix electric stoves, hot plates, ovens, waffle irons, percolators, what...
...warn Chamberlin. Flying beside him, they held out wheels to signal his trouble. For 50 minutes the Levines, horrified, watched the plane circle hopelessly about, followed by an ambulance ready to pick up the bodies. They saw Carisi climb over the edge, struggle vainly, hanging head down, to fix the buckled wheel. Pilot Chamberlin. wrapped the children in blankets to save the shock of a crash. Then he slowly swooped down, ten feet from the ground flattened into a pancake stall, 'tail downwards. A wing dragged along the ground, slewed the ship around but not over. Incredibly, Pilot Chamberlin...
...opera lovers, or synthetic concertgoers, can then, by a simple motion, turn the record magazine about and play the twelve "other sides." The whole score of a musical comedy will thus be made available to the corridors of a girl's boarding school without anyone's shouting, "Fix that phonograph, will you? I'm curling my hair!" Whole operas and concerts can be recorded in proper sequence, and are being recorded. Already Victor offers Beethoven's Fifth.. Next month it will be ready with the most popular Victrola classic of all, Tchaikowsky's "Pathetique...
...State of New York has the right to abolish prize fighting, but under this decision it has not the right to fix the price at which tickets shall be sold. Prize fighting is clearly covered by the decision, which mentions baseball, football and other sports...
...Arica:* "You must not be afraid for the future of Tacna-Arica. That territory can only be robbed from our dominion and flag by force of bayonets. The time nears to notify the American nations that the will of the Chilean people is to terminate United States intervention and fix our boundary on the River Sama line. If Peru continues her haughty demands Chile accordingly is under the moral obligation to declare that Tacna-Arica will be annexed to its dominion...