Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sounded as if he were instructing the Almighty in the tone of an irate football coach bawling out a quarterback between halves. It goes: O Lord our God, arise, Scatter his enemies And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks; On Thee our hopes we fix; God save...
Operation Field Trip, unit, Geography 35a, Professor Erwin Raisz Commanding, made a navigational fix to the faultless second last week for the rendezvous point of the motor transport deep in the wilds of Winchester. Officer and men were to establish contact from different directions. The course being Mapmaking, they couldn't miss...
Where to live is the question that will overshadow all others, especially for the first weeks of this record-smashing term, but the Housemasters and the higher officers in the Faculty fix their limits, not on the availability of mere shelter but on the extent to which the inevitable crowding will affect the intangibles considered important adjuncts to ordinary classroom work...
Constable Earp, who is a second cousin of Arizona's famed Wyatt Earp,* is going to fix up the house with paint and a new roof, and put a place in the back of the lot for his real-estate office. "I plan some little things like picture cards and a booklet on Wyatt Earp and the family," he said, "and if someone buys 50? worth I'll show him the Truman room free...
Then it saw that the "union members" seemed more like independent fishermen, their "contracts" (covering $10 million worth of fish a year brought into twelve California ports) had the effect of price-fixing agreements. Under the Norris-LaGuardia Act, a union cannot be prosecuted for conspiring to fix prices. But last week the Government brought suit anyway. Its contention: the C.I.O.'s I.F.A.W.A. is not really a union but a trade organization of small fishermen...