Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House party and because Congress had appropriated $100,000 for improvements, anything that happened in the National Training School for Girls was newsworthy. Last summer, a controversy between white and colored inmates as to whether Joe Louis was a better boxer than Jimmy Braddock started a free-for-all fight. Month ago, a fire alarm set off to increase the excitement of a school rumpus brought police to the scene...
...land of the free and equal, where every mother's son had a chance to become a millionaire or President, sailed from France 29 years ago one Charles Eugene Bedaux. Although slight in stature and of no great muscle, this ambitious little Frenchman promptly took the highest paid job he could qualify for in Manhattan as an unskilled laborer, that of a "sand hog" digging skyscraper and subway foundations under heavy air pressure which gives a workman who emerges too quickly cramps and pains called "the bends." Using his brain as well as his shovel, Sand Hog Bedaux...
Under selected public-school teachers who must be able to keep their poise when the children flash bits of unfamiliar information on them, the pupils are covering the regular school curriculum (minus reading, in which they need no instruction) in one-half the normal time. Thus they are free to spend the rest of the day investigating things the elementary public-school child seldom learns-French, poetry, music appreciation (via radio) and are doing independent research into such common aspects of civilization as lighting, transportation. Ninety per cent read newspapers daily, discourse on the Chinese war and the Roosevelt fiscal...
...first Apostolic Delegate to the U. S.) who was empowered, among other things, to look into the McGlynn case. Single-Taxer McGlynn gave Monsignor Satolli a statement of his views which so convincingly showed them to be fundamentally orthodox that, at once, the Pope's representative declared him free from censure. Though it has since been frequently intimated to the contrary, Single-Taxer McGlynn regained his priestly standing without being obliged to retract a single word of his utterances on economics...
...touchdown was scored without the runner crossing the goal line. South Carolina's Jack Lyon was running free for a touchdown when a Citadel rooter stepped onto the field, tackled him. Since Lyon had been clear, the referee awarded South Carolina six points. Score: South Carolina 21, Citadel...