Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remaining 160 odd have been men taking advantage of the optional free exams which are being given regularly every day now. These will continue until the middle of November or until the applications for this service have been pretty well exhausted. Last year during the whole College term a total of 2034 men were examined. This year's total will undoubtedly approach this figure after various teams, such as hockey, basketball, squash, baseball, etc., have been accounted...
Union announced a sentimental addition to its service. To keep the word "telegraphically alive," LOVE may henceforth be added free to any of Western Union's 554 ready-written messages...
Like most other Western Union epistolary innovations in the past quarter century, free love was originated by Vice President John Calvin Willever. Now 71, Mr. Willever has been with Western Union longer than any man now in active service. The name J. C. Willever has appeared on every Western Union blank since 1916-more than 5,000,000,000 times. In 1910, when the late Theodore N. Vail blazed into Western Union for a brief term as president, Mr. Willever al ready had the longest service record of any major executive. For years he had been trying io sell...
...still inhabited by his descendants. There, in the summer of 1821, a 35-year-old wandering painter named John James Audubon arrived to teach French and painting to 16-year-old Eliza Pirrie. It was almost his first good fortune. He got $60 a month, had his afternoons free, could study to his heart's content the varied bird life of West Feliciana...
...share in controlling the halls, as well as dealing with the need for shorter working hours on shipboard and recognizing the union leaders as the official voice of labor. When the contracts expired, the shipping companies sought to rid them selves of union interference and return to the old "free for all" system. And since neither side has good temper enough to arbitrate, with Secretary Perkins pointing an accusing finger at the employers as the prime offenders, the seamen have taken the final step of calling out a strike...