Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patrolman named Louis Brackman, told him he wanted to buy police protection for a brothel he planned to open. In a series of tape-recorded meetings, Richter offered Patrolman Brackman $1,000 for himself and $2,000 for the bigwig in the police department who could make the fix. But after several meetings, Brackman finally reported the attempted bribe, and police swooped down on Richter's apartment and arrested him. Screamed the States: ARREST SPECIAL...
...lure in people, the Smiths spot slot machines ( 3? to $1) strategically, fix them so that they pay out 97% of what is put into them. By thus keeping the house take low on their 800 slots, they build up customers' confidence for bigger bets-at eleven crap tables (where the house has a mathematical edge of 1.4%), 29 blackjack tables (2½%), nine roulette wheels (5.2%) and the horses. Winners are always paid off in silver dollars (except for big games). The Smiths have found that a pocketful of silver dollars is a temptation to keep on gambling...
...hopes that, by guaranteeing $10,000-a-year income and a rent-free house, he can lure a full-time doctor to Ryderwood. Kem has no fears that the oldtimers' lives will be dull: he is leaving the interiors of the houses alone, so that the buyers can fix them up to their own taste. He also hopes to lease a factory building to some business to provide part-time employment, for those who want...
...Denver put on sale a gun that repairs flat tires by shooting a rubber compound into punctures while the tire is still on the wheel. The compound seals the hole in the tire casing and also patches the inner tube. Each Vulco-Weld Tire Gun contains enough compound to fix 50 tubeless tires or 20 regular ones. Price...
...situations, as Johnson said, that will always have the disadvantage which we have already tried. For we have actually felt its liabilities at first hand, while, in imagining prospects we have not yet been forced to live through, the disadvantages are less vividly felt, and we fix our attention on the more pleasing side. This may possibly apply to any undergraduate feeling that agrees with your editorial. If the other pasture, from a distance, looks greener, could there not be some trust that many members of the Faculty have seen that other pasture closely, and remember very well what...