Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anxious to have an F which he had received on a ten minute quiz erased from the mark book, an anonymous Freshman recently complained to his instructor that he had prepared the wrong assignment. When asked if he would "fix it up," the favor-granting master replied that he would to his best. Next morning the paper was returned to its expectant owner. Mark: F-plus: -Yale Dally News...
...well into which he threw it and grew so huge that it would wrap itself many times around a nearby hill. It devastated the countryside and when cut into pieces reunited and slew its attackers. A local witch told Sir John he could kill it if he would fix razor blades to his armor and vow to kill the first living thing he saw after vanquishing the Worm. If he broke the vow, the beldame said, for nine generations no Lambton would...
...sake" is useless. To develop, muscles must be used for a purpose. Spastic children must be sent to school as soon as possible, must not have their lessons done for them, for they learn only by experience. Writing, or typing, is very important, for muscular movements somehow help to fix facts in the spastic's brain...
...Gold Prohibition Law (as Mr. Scherman terms the anti-hoarding act of the banking crisis days) no one else in the United States but the Treasury, not even the Federal Reserve Banks, can hold any gold at all. Further, the President by executive decree can fix the weight of the gold in a dollar pretty much as he pleases. This particular power expired in 1939 and it is in the renewal of F. D. R.'s authority to establish the gold content per executive pleasure that Scherman sees a real danger...
...from Maine to the Middle West and has been translated into Chinese. Their book tells how to choose colors in rugs and draperies, how to arrange furniture in a room, how to balance knick-knacks on a mantelpiece and food on a plate, how to dress tastefully, how to fix flowers, frame pictures, choose men's clothes, how to spot a good thing, from a well-designed fly swatter to a well-planned city. Its pages fairly bulge with pictures of good v. bad taste...