Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this inquiry," said he, "the experts will indicate to the Reparation Commission the payments that they think Germany can make during the period of preparation for the larger payments. It is for the Reparation Commission then to make the decisions which will maintain the peace of the world; to fix the figures for the German annuities until 1926, and to examine the possibility of floating loans guaranteed by the products of the controlled guarantees...
...observation of them has gone, I believe them to be fundamentally concerned about God. Our precious heritage of non-interference with personal matters has encouraged in Harvard men a quiet formulation of belief which needs no shouting from the house-top to reinforce it, nor public confession to fix it. HARRV REIFF...
...reason that the Admiral was not satisfied was that the Board had tied conditions to its gift. The salaries of the officials of the Corporation must be approved by the Board; the Board reserves control over any litigation undertaken by the Corporation; the power to fix routes remains with the Board; sales of Corporation property must be at prices and under conditions to which the Board consents. The Board, of course, retains its regulatory powers over shipping in general. Otherwise Admiral Palmer is to have a free hand...
...frequent dissolutions? I should on no ground leave to the monarch the invidious and dangerous task of being the guardian. . . . Looking ahead, however, one of two things may have to be done. The present maximum life of the House of Commons is five years. Shall we be driven to fix a minimum? If we were it ought not to be more than three years. As an alternative, could the House of Commons be made to decide its own dissolution within the maximum period fixed? There are objections to both methods...
...indecency as far as is necessary to portray the whole truth of his picture. But Mr. Sergel harps on this theme and its attendant circumstances for 176 pages--and does not reach the truth even then. His glut of torment is avowedly only to set the stage and fix the characters in their primary position, but even with this achieved he tells but half the story...