Word: free
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reading room of the public library I noticed the sign, "Because someone is continually stealing TIME, it must be kept at the desk. Ask for it." There is free publicity for you. For several years I have known you are a genius but I never realized you would drive a person to such moral laxity...
...Republic, writing in the January issue of Foreign Affairs, scholarly grey-bound U. S. quarterly. Of Stresemann and himself the Viscount writes: "For six years we were in almost daily intercourse. ... I believe that no two men in similar positions were ever more frank with one another or more free...
...month truce was forced upon them by the biggest company among them, U. S.-owned International Paper Co. Not a member of the institute, free to act independently, International offered newsprint at $55.20 per ton until July 1, promising 30 days' notice of any price change after July...
...Government is negotiating for $10,000,000 worth of Alaskan spruce and hemlock for newsprint manufacture, a stimulant to pulpsters' interest in that territory. The U. S. now annually imports about 100,000 tons of newsprint, duty free, from Germany, Finland, Sweden, Norway. This amount is, however, negligible in the annual consumption of newsprint in the U. S., estimated (1928) at 3,600,000 tons...
...human fingers and toes in the world (somewhat more than 30 billion) were free electrons and were multiplied by a billion and again by a billion, all those electrons would weigh just about one ounce avoirdupois. And yet one of those almost weightless electrons, a negative charge of electricity, as it shoots from the cathode of an X-ray tube or from the filament of a radio tube engraves its path on metal...