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Word: fixes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frozen Smile. So the income tax was crushed to earth again. It is possible to fix the day, the hour, the minute, almost the very second when it began to rise again, a rise that was to lead without serious check to the Great Disgorging of mid-March 1952. President Theodore Roosevelt, who had been annoyed for some time at what he called "the dull, purblind folly of the very rich men," made a speech on April 14, 1906, at the cornerstone laying of the new House Office Building. Congressman Champ Clark, long the Democratic House leader, gave this account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: The Big Bite | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...place (up from fourth) and forced Czechoslovakia into a third-place play-off-which it lost to Sweden. The Russians, looking after Little Brother Czechoslovakia, figured the tie was no mere accident. In effect, they were crying that ugly three-letter word all too familiar to Western sport fans: "Fix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Brother Sees All | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...kronk," was the shy answer. "Du kenst mir fixen? [I'm sick. You can fix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Saturday Night | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

Inside & Out. When he sat down, the Socialists went after him hot & heavy, anxious to fix his party with the onus of a peace treaty they could fight at the polls 17 months from now. Adenauer's own Centrist coalition fought him too. In the end, they tacked on to his rearmament resolution four sticky conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Rearming, with Provisos | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

Former Law School student Saul Feinberg has pleaded guilty to a bribery indictment in New York's General Sessions. Feinberg told the court he bribed a University of Kentucky basketball player to fix the score of a Madison Square Garden Tournament game three years ago. He will be sentenced March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feinberg, Ex-Law Student, Admits Basketball Fixing | 2/16/1952 | See Source »

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