Word: free
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have not gone through a legal ceremony. ... I do not consider that marriage ought to be the subject of legal contract. It is far too intimate and personal a matter for that. . . . My union with my husband is entirely free. ... I believe that the tendency of the future is in this direction, and that posterity will see nothing remarkable in our decision...
With characteristic biologic modesty, the cholera bacteriophage had been at work long before it was discovered and named. There have always been cholera patients who recovered spontaneously; many a village in India has remained free from cholera while the epidemic raged around it. These patients had an abundance of bacteriophages in the intestines, probably because the village drinking water had been accidentally contaminated by the bacteriophages. Dr. d'Herelle systematized these coincidences. He prepared cultures of the bacteriophage from the stools of convalescent patients, transferred 30 to 40 cubic centimetres of the culture to every well in the district...
Solemn and deep-voiced Professor Jabavu, of the South African Native College, pointed out that in his country, while there are five blacks to one white, 88% of educational funds are spent on whites. The Rev. Dr. Charles Pugh, who had come from the Congo Free State, said that in the rural districts there were thousands of people who could read, but that they had no books...
Singin', "High-stepper, Lawd, you shall be free...
...Free to bust up a prayer meetin' or a quiltin' jamboree: lights out, shots in the dark, screams, "Lawd, my daddy hurt?"-and all "jes' for the hell...