Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Furthermore, the completion of all this work places the French High Command in a position to attempt maneuvering operations, going beyond the defensive phase on the day and at the hour it may suit it eventually to fix...
Estimates were lacking on the number of men Russia was ready to hurl against the Mannerheim Line and the other three points of resistance, but the first few days' fighting sounded more like regiments than divisions, a series of holding attacks to fix the defenders in positions, set them up for more crushing blows. The Finns said 40,000 of their men were standing off 80,000 Russians. Except at the Mannerheim Line, which the Salmi and Suojärvi attacks were evidently calculated to outflank, Finnish tactics were guerrilla retreat, using forests and lakes (not yet frozen solid...
...fifth night before the event likewise was unfavorable and again the plan had to be postponed. The night from the fourth to third day before Nov. 8, however, gave Elser an opportunity to fix his timing mechanism in the prepared dynamite chamber...
...wasn't the new Neutrality Act meant to fix all these questions? Vag had been reading headline after headline about how Congress was thrashing out a new bill that would take care of everything and keep us out of war, and then he read that it was passed by a large vote. Here was what he was looking for. If he could get someone to explain this bill to him, everything would be clear. And so Vag is suspending further thought on the subject of the War until he hears Professor Payson S. Wild speak at 11 o'clock this...
When Lady Baldwin of Bewdley recently visited Manhattan with her husband, she wanted to see the General Motors Futurama exhibit at New York's World's Fair, but did not want to wait in line. She asked her husband, Earl Baldwin (Stanley Baldwin), to fix it up. He telephoned the British Consulate; the Consulate called the British Embassy in Washington; the Embassy, faced by a new problem in protocol, cabled the Foreign...