Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...forms of exercise tennis is undoubtedly the most popular. A very conservative estimate would fix 350 as the number who play on the courts every fair afternoon. This total is greater than the number of daily participants in rowing, track, and baseball...
...speech something of the effectiveness of the Book of Proverbs and the eloquence of the parables of Christ. The more homely the illustration, the better it is. The more pointedly a thing is expressed, the more easily it is grasped. The great man is the man who can fix in an epigram the dominant idea of his day. Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt have done this. When Colonel Roosevelt said in his Paris speech, "Whenever human rights and property rights conflict, human rights must take the lead," he was expressing the dominant thought of democratic government today. And that, says...
...College work. If we are to succeed in making scholarship in College an object of ambition, we must lay stress not exclusively upon the degree, but also upon the grade with which that degree is taken, and upon literary and other prizes that are won. In short, we must fix the attention of the student not upon minimum requirements, but upon the highest grade of excellence that lies within his power...
Club tables will be assigned as soon as practicable after the Hall is opened to all groups of members wishing to eat together, the management reserving the right to fix the maximum and minimum membership. Each club table will choose one of its members to act for it in dealing with the management. Smoking will be permitted in the main dining hall at dinner within a fixed period...
Club tables will be assigned as soon as practicable after the Hall is opened to all groups of members wishing to eat together, the management reserving the right to fix the maximum and minimum membership. Each club table will choose one of its members to act for it in dealing with the management. Smoking will be permitted in the main dining hall at dinner within a fixed period...