Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toronto meeting broke up with a free-for-all argument on the floor regarding the relative effects of heredity and training on children. One virtuoso of the science of child study argued that Marie was smaller and less smart than the others because the "bag of water" which, like a soft shell, encloses a fetus, broke before she was born...
...Drinker observed that inflammation in a wound blocks the lymph channels in that part of the body. This blockade does two things. It causes substances, whose constituents Dr. Drinker confessed he does not know, to accumulate in the wound. These substances cause scars. The blockade also prevents the free flow of lymph to the site of the wound. Lymph, in some manner which Dr. Drinker still is trying to learn, destroys germs. If, as in an inflamed wound, it cannot reach invading germs the instant they touch the raw flesh, the germs swiftly get into the blood stream where...
...required is primarily biological and we do not yet know how to effect it. But there are enough clever youngsters to find out, if only they can be shown the necessity of tackling the problem. They at any rate will know the truth, and perhaps it will make them free. Free from what? From imbeciles and morons who are allowed to reproduce their kind, and to subsist upon the labors of others, from psychopaths who lead the mentally inferior mass of civilized populations into purposeless wars and social revolutions, from the ever increasing numbers of biological and mental inferiors...
...body is comfortable, and the mind, released from preoccupation with heat adjustment, is free to attend to other matters...
...Dundalk, Irish Free State, Julia Clark of Glasgow, Scotland, was sentenced to one month in jail and deportation, for violating Section 18 of the 1935 criminal code (de Valera's vice law) which forbids "any act ... offending modesty or causing scandal or injuring the morals of the community." Her offense: Kissing her sweetheart in public...