Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conant expects to solve unemployment by his proposals as much as he wants to improve the quality of Harvard graduates. Certainly, he does not consider the University, as some educators look at their institutions, a business for the mass production of college men. Yet, his intentions do not free him from the rightful charge that the dubiousness of his report promoted many inaccurate interpretations and much public resentment...
Main results of Ulen's tests showed that the value of oxygen for racing swimmers was negligible. However, since the principal effect of the gas in a pure form is to enable sprinters in the 50-yard free-style to hold their breath for the entire two laps, it was demonstrated that times for the 50 actually could be speeded...
Officer George DePinto has gathered a five-man team which has been in strict training for several days. The patrolmen's free afternoons find them down at the bowling alleys, rolling out strike after strike as they practice for the Yale meet...
Walter Winchell is an editorially free man so long as he keeps his signed column to Broadway trivia. Let him pick up from his liberal friends a political notion at odds with the prevailing Hearst policy, and Walter Winchell might become as voiceless as a $35-a-week Hearst reporter. Rare, however, is such smothering as Winchell got last week...
...laws requiring both applicants for a marriage license to show medical certificates that they are free from syphilis have gone into effect in Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. A similar New Hampshire law is going into effect this year. (Connecticut has had such a law since 1935; New York, New Jersey, Kentucky and Oregon Legislatures have similar bills under consideration...