Word: free
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...huskers' hands worked like shuttles in two motions?up and down. They tore the ears off the stalks, twisting the instruments on their gloves so as to lay bare the smooth corn kernels. With their free hands they took hold of the bare ears, twisted and snapped off the rest of the husks, threw the ears into the wagons...
...Some years ago the Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Methodists of Canada joined to form the United Church of Canada. Last month the Established Church (Auld Kirk) merged with the United Free Church to form the Church of Scotland. Last month the U. S. Congregationalists and the so-called Christian Church joined...
Mann of Buddenbrooks. In the early 18th Century the House of Mann was great in the woolen draping trade at Nuremberg, ancient, free and most glamorous of German cities. Novelist Mann has told in his Buddenbrooks, aptly dubbed "The German Forsyte Saga," of the rise and decline of a great merchant family almost precisely like his own. His father was a Senator and twice Mayor of Lübeck, the Hanseatic Capital where Thomas was born 54 years ago, when Hanseatic troops still dipped their colors at a Mann's approach...
...allied countries except Great Britain, Canada, Australia and the Irish Free State have made such restitutions. Notably the U. S. has paid Germany $300,000,000. The British Dominion of South Africa has made a separate settlement with the Reich, ignoring the British Conservative policy of "no restitution" which Laborite Philip ("Spongecake") Snowden is carrying...
...long ago he was ignominiously unseated from the Assembly for bribery in elections: free drinks on election day, free uniforms for the local fire brigade, free cows for peasants of questionable loyalty. In the recent Senatorial elections Senator-Baron Maurice was more cautious. He bought no cows, contented himself with brilliantly elaborate invective against his unfortunate opponent, one Paul Hoeffler...