Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ward's sends out no expeditions. It has lists of 11,000 collectors to whom it writes for needed items. Free-lancers send in material on speculation. Earthworms one foot long-for classroom dissection-come from Michigan, huge bullfrogs from Louisiana. France ships bushels of its edible snails, which are bigger than U. S. snails and therefore better for anatomical instruction. Rattlesnakes from Texas sometimes arrive alive, are slain on the premises. Cats are bought in the neighborhood, drowned and embalmed, but Ward's does not advertise for cats lest owners of lost pets take umbrage. Few years...
...time in their lives the Godinos could have undergone a comparatively simple operation, got free of each other...
...small magazine about Reader's Digest size. The Pawnbrokers' Journal got directly to business with the publisher's manifesto which promised that the magazine was to be "a free press for imparting news affecting the industry," and asserted that "proper publicity" would "create a more favorable public opinion of the pawnbrokers' business." Pages of news followed about pawnbrokers' ordinances in various cities, including Berlin, where The Pawnbrokers' Journal correspondent wrote: "Pawn shops, the poor man's banks, are soon to feel the Nazi big stick. . . . Their interest rates, often running as high...
John J. Colony, Jr. '37, who is a free-styler, leads the team as captain; but the primary interest will lie in the members of the Junior class, paced by Charlie Hutter, national intercollegiate 100 yard free style champion and a member of Uncle Sam's Olympic team in Berlin last summer. His classmate Graham Cummin is also an intercollegiate champion, having won the backstroke in that meet in record-breaking time. Two other top free-style men from the class of '38 are Donald McCay and Donald Barker...
Speaking on the subject "The Irrational Element in Poetry", the American poet Wallace Stevens will give a free public lecture tomorrow afternoon in Sever Hall at 4:30 o'clock. The lecture is under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund...