Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This would fix up Hewart's friend Slesser, and Hewart showed by his expression that he would assent. Sankey, in vast relief, snatched off his full wig, wiped his perspiring brow and exclaimed : "Lord Reading's suggestion saves everybody's face...
...members until the next election by the class to fill such elective position; to remove any class officers or any of their own members; to conduct all elections, to fill vacancies in their own number, and determine within the limits herein prescribed the procedure for conducting such elections; to fix rules for conduct of its own meetings and determine the number necessary for a quorum thereat; in all other mattors concerning the class and its affairs not specifically mentioned therein, to determine what action shall be taken and to act on behalf of the class...
Conscious of his neuroses, Powys sometimes turned them to account. At school he got out of a disagreeable fix by successfully pretending to be mad. His vociferous strangeness attracted a few disciples at Cambridge. When he went to the U. S. in 1905 and began to lecture, he found his metier: "Yes, the platform has been everything to me. It has been the bed of my erotic joys. It has been the battlefield of my fiercest struggles. It has been the gibbet of my execution. It has been the post of my scourging. It has been my throne...
...Government many times without succeeding always in convincing people across the sea. However, I'll try once more and say for the umpteenth time that the policy of this government is to maintain the independence of sterling. . . . We have never attempted nor are we attempting now to fix exchange at a given point or maintain it even within a fixed limit of values...
...cared nothing for what foreigners were willing to pay outside for Swedish kronor, except as foreign exchange affected internal prices. No modern nation had ever presumed formally to try to control wholesale prices. Governor Rooth's tools were only the usual central bank's powers to fix the bank rate, to buy gold and deal in foreign exchange...