Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boston has the glory of having given in 1636 the first college or university to the New World. It is located on an extensive plain, four miles from Boston, at a place called Cambridge. The imagination could not fix on a place that could better unite all the conditions essential to a seat of education, sufficiently near to Boston to enjoy all the advantages of communication with Europe and the rest of the world, and yet sufficiently distant not to expose the students to the contagion of licentious manners common in commercial towns...
...This was the latest in a long list of attempts by the Nehru government to curb freedom of the press; if Nehru has his way, India's entire press will be brought under government control. His government has asked the Indian Parliament to give it the authority to fix prices of papers, to set up a press council that would "censure anyone guilty of infraction of the ethics of the profession," to empower a press registrar to get full financial and business data from newspaper owners...
Scanlon's way is actually less a formal plan than an approach, with three constant ingredients. First, the union and management in the plant fix a productivity "norm," and the working force is promised a bonus out of the savings the workers can effect by producing at a lower cost per unit. Unlike many other incentive plans, the Scanlon Plan is noncompetitive, does not throw the plant wage structure out of balance, and unites the men on a common goal instead of pitting them against each other. The second ingredient is a system of production councils in which union...
...modern counterpart "in Ryan Aeronautical Co.'s recently announced long-range air navigation system. The sailors estimated their speed, leeway and the effect of ocean currents to give them their rough position. The Ryan Automatic Navigator does much the same thing by making a fix on some object whose position is known (e.g., the Pentagon). While still within radar range, the instruments tell the ground speed, etc., by radar observations. With increasing distance, the instruments operate on their own, by sensing delicately each force that tends to divert the airplane from its proper course. A crosswind, for instance...
...Ralph." Next came the tough celestial navigation tests, a dog-legged, 891-mile course from Butte to the Hoover Dam. Only the stars could be used to fix position. At least five minutes ahead of time, the observer was required to announce his estimated time of arrival at Hoover Dam. Joe Holguin's E.T.A. was 10:57:54. When the 54th second of the 57th minute ticked past, the City of Merced was two miles from Hoover...