Word: free
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Farmers looked at what they got, at what they had asked and frowned. Flaxseed had been held at 56¢ per lb. when they had demanded an 84¢ duty. Their 15¢ butter rate had been spurned. They found hides still on the free list and no provision for obstructing the free importation of vegetable oils from the Philippines. Where they had asked for an 8¢ duty on casein, the House Committee gave them a 2½¢ duty. The U. S. husbandman's representatives were loud with the U. S. husbandman's disgust...
...annual concert by the Musical Club of Harvard University will be given in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building on Thursday evening at 8.15 o'clock. The concert will be open to the public free of charge...
...costs approximately $75 to send a team to Philadelphia. The League schedule provides for three trips away from Cambridge and the entertainment of three visiting teams in Cambridge. The League chooses the questions. These debates have not proved popular in Cambridge, and have attracted smaller crowds than the "free-lance" debates. Hence the Council cannot possibly afford to continue them unless it received a special grant from the College to defray the extra expense.... J. Mack Swigert, '30. Ex-President, Harvard Debating Council...
...self-winding wrist watch a "perpetual motion" watch that winds itself, somewhat on the principle of the pedometer, is to be given free to a student of the University next month, according to an announcement by the Perpetual Self-Winding Watch Co., New York City, manufacturers of this startling new invention...
...minor change under an athletic endowment would be the probable abolishment of admission charges for undergraduates and alumni years ago, when the Harvard Stadium was first built, the students were promised free seats at all the games as soon as the debts were paid off. If this endowment should ever become a reality, Harvard would be able to keep her promise at last...