Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flood of letters received since TIME announced its intention of printing one a week from someone who wanted a job would give any reader a liberal education on the unemployment situation among educated people. It has also demonstrated that printing one "free advertisement" a week is unsatisfactory because it gives no impression of the volume of job seekers, and no representative letter can be chosen from such heterogeneous applications-from men and women; from youngsters, young marrieds, middle aged, and oldsters; from chemists, farmers, accountants, writers, executives, secretaries; from people who have had no jobs for years and people with...
...obviously no accident that the end of a century of free migration from Europe should have been followed immediately by a wave of revolutionary imperialism in the very region of Europe where the pressure of surplus population is the greatest and the post-war impoverishment the most acute. It is no accident, surely, that with the non-European world closed to European migration and in large part to European trade, there should have followed so quickly a fierce movement toward empire and a ruthless spoliation of the more defenseless minorities...
Each student is observed for three weeks. X-rays of the abdomen are made every few hours to follow the progress of food through the intestines. During the first week the volunteers live on bran-free diets, during the second week eat bran, during the third week again return to bran-free food...
...There are some individuals who may accommodate themselves to a roughage-free diet without ill effect. There are others who develop colon stasis in various portions of the large bowel. And while a certain degree of colon stasis may be tolerated without ill effect, such individuals are liable to disturbances arising from the abnormal retention of fecal material in these portions of the bowel. There is no doubt as evidenced from practical experience that many such individuals who find themselves to have irregular and inadequate bowel movements can secure more regular and more satisfactory evacuations by the use of bran...
Much dissension arose among coaches present as to the interpretation of the further ruling that if the player passes through or otherwise spends some time (even without the ball) in the rest of the foul circle or in the free-throw lane, the time he spends there is deducted from his alloted three seconds. This assumes, of course, that he does not leave the foul circle or the free-throw lane before getting the ball...