Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...organum" if ever the sun shone on anything new. We read that the teachers are rushing to affiliate themselves with this branch of the Federation of Labor; that "teachers in and about Boston, including professors at Harvard University", organized the "Greater Boston Federation of Teachers" whose purpose is to fix a minimum salary and procure adequate retirement laws...
...citizen army is strangely reminiscent of Mr. Bryan. Physical training in schools and colleges is essentially desirable but it is not obvious just how it will make every citizen ready to become a soldier at a moment's notice, especially when French, British and American army experts fix six months as the minimum training for recruits Rating an any after an emergency is much like organizing a fire department after the outbreak of a conflagration...
...been postponed until after the Easter vacation and will not be held this evening as was formerly announced. This change is due to the fact that the selection for speaking may be changed in accordance with the wishes expressed by several of the candidates. It has been impossible to fix a date for the final contest which would ordinarily come during the time set for this year's Easter vacation. The times of the preliminary and final contests will be announced later...
...first duty of the Peace Conference at Paris was to being the war with Germany to an end and fix such terms of victorious peace as would discourage any nation from undertaking a war of wanton aggression for all time. But months have been wasted in parleying about vague schemes for future peace which should have been devoted to forcing Germany at once to realize that she has been defeated. After bringing this war to a close there will be ample time to talk about the prevention of future wars. They are two distinct and separate propositions...
...advances along its own line of communication, along closely delimited and parallel battle strips. This virtually compels the army to advance in a straight line. And, if a change of direction, as is indicated in the present case, be made to the extent of a half-turn, then to fix the lines of communication so as not to cross and run smoothly is a matter of immense difficulty...