Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hockey or lacrosse, pole vault, or fence. But you can do the broad jump, the hop, step, and jump, the standing high jump, and the shot put. You can also run races, though for that there has to be a special equipment and because this equipment is hard to fix up for long distances blind men usually only run sprints...
Questions. Up before the Council were three vital questions upon which it had delayed to act for months or years: 1) Shall the Rumanian Government pay compensation for lands expropriated by it from Hungarian citizens? (TIME, Sept. 26); 2) Should the League fix responsibility and apply censure in the matter of the Italian arms which were smuggled into Hungary in defiance of the Treaty of Trianon? (TIME, March 5); 3) Shall the Baltic city of Vilna belong to Poland (now holding it by authority of the Allied Council of Ambassadors); or to Lithuania (which received Vilna from Soviet Russia under...
...minutes before noon the Friendship swooped down into Halifax harbor, Nova Scotia. Her crew went to a hotel and early to bed. Miss Earhart refused to tell newsgatherers what kind of powder she used. Up early they were, and again eastward, only to land at Trepassey, Newfoundland, to fix a slight leak in the gasoline tank...
When politicians seek to legislate upwards and fix by law the prices of U. S. farm commodities, a man who wonders what price levels the politicians would recommend is Eugene Meyer Jr., the mentally mobile New York banker whom President Wilson called in in 1918 to direct War Finance Corp., whom President Harding called back in 1921, whom President Coolidge reappointed in 1925, and who last May was made chief of the reorganized Federal Farm Loan Bureau. In his inconspicuous office at Washington, he has received malcontents, and their political spokesmen, during three Administrations. His record of financial diplomacy...
After ten years of beating, Congress last week transformed a monster sword into something faintly resembling a plowshare. It was the War Department's $160,000,000 project on the Tennessee River at Muscle Shoals, Ala., a power dam to generate electricity to fix atmospheric nitrogen to make nitrates to make explosives to blow up the Enemy...