Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deposit. One change has however, been made this year. It has been decided that a uniform rate of 25 cents a copy will be charged as deposit, all of which except five cents a copy for expenses will be returned on receipt of the borrowed copy. The decision to fix a uniform rate instead of the 10, 15, and 25 cents per copy, comes as a result of the growing tendency not to return books on which only a small deposit has been made; the actual expense to the borrower remains in all cases the same...
...planning to attend College an equal chance to secure necessary books. It has been decided that a uniform deposit of 25 cents will be required this year, all of which minus five cents a copy or expenses, will be returned on receipt of the borrowed copy. The decision to fix a uniform rate instead of the former scale of 10, 15, and 25 cents per copy, comes as a result of the growing tendency not to return books on which only a small deposit has been made; the actual expense to the borrower remains in all cases the same...
...present railway law should be given a fair trial", he continued. "The members of the farm bloc in Congress are doing everything they can to have the bill repealed. They consider that the provision directing the Interstate Commerce Commission to fix rates so that the railroads will receive a fair return, is detrimental to their interests. This provision is the best feature of the bill, in my opinion. Formerly every company tried to undersell every other road, with the result that wages were low, and investors did not receive a fair return on their money. This new provision promises...
There are two ways of sailing a boat across the wind. One is to fix a course at the start and keep on it as clearly as possible all the way. The other is to "play the wind," edge up into it and try to gain as much as possible with every little change in its direction. The latter way may be more interesting and get more out of individual puffs, but the former is "plain sailing"; steady, sure, and the far more efficient...
...equivalent amount of forcible feeding. The course in which a student must work out the answers to questions for himself, instead of learning the answers by rote, has many advantages: it is an agreeable incentive to work, it is perhaps a slower but certainly a surer way to fix facts in the memory; it trains the mind to be an active organ instead of a passive receptacle for knowledge; above all, it fits a man to apply himself to the life he will meet after college, where every step he takes is not so much a lesson to be learned...