Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trip to find the best skiing terrain on Union Pacific's extensive Rocky Mountain routes. Sun Valley-then a nameless dent in a State previously famed mainly for potatoes and Senator Borah- was Count Schaffgotsch's choice. Among its natural advantages: slopes free from timber, surrounding peaks up to 12,000 ft. above sea level to shut off cold northern winds, snow from December to April, sun hot enough for skiing without a shirt...
...prevent the broadcasters from appropriating its news as it appeared in member papers. Financial support came, to KVOS from the National Association of Broadcasters, representatives of a notoriously timid yet greedy industry, glad to find an obscure test case which might entitle them to millions of dollars worth of free news. First Federal District Court in Washington to examine the case figured out that KVOS was not "unfairly competing" with A. P., refused to grant the injunction. When a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed this decision, the National Association of Broadcasters decided it had had enough and withdrew...
...taking it easy. He encouraged his household to do likewise, with the result that his son-in-law Sycamore took up Meccano and manufacturing fireworks, his daughter (Josephine Hull) turned to painting, then to playwriting when someone left a typewriter at the house by mistake. Grandpa's free-&-easy home was also opened to a pair of happy-go-lucky colored folk, the iceman-a Mr. De Pinna-and the milkman, who had no name of his own so Grandpa buried him under his when he died. Grandpa was never bothered with mail after that...
Interstellar Gas. Until this year the only gases known to occur in interstellar space were sodium and calcium. Ordinarily these metallic elements must be strongly heated before they vaporize, but in the utter cold of space, close to absolute zero, they exist in exiguous quantities as free molecules and therefore as gases. In the ultraviolet range of the spectrum of the stars Chi 2 Orionis and Chi Aurigae, Astronomers Walter S. Adams and Theodore Dunham Jr. of Mt. Wilson Observatory found four lines (one of them almost blotted out by the interference of Earth's atmosphere) which they identified...
...cashiered for contemptible cowardice. Now, in 1914, he is still trying to get the judgment reversed, meanwhile spending most of his time in bed, appearing mysteriously in good health after being reported dying, creeping through the halls at night, torturing Armand, until the boy faints, in an effort to free him of cowardice. His wife protects his delusions, nurses him, lies to her children about him. His sister Therese, once a great tragic actress, crippled with rheumatism, hobbles about on crutches. In a remote section there is a fiery great-grandmother. Nadya Séverin, a Russian princess waited...