Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presented with a free subscription to the CRIMSON and congratulated on having the honor of opening the new century, Mills said, "Thank you very much; I'm in a hurry to take an examination...
...scholars at Harvard has been an inspiring event. We like to feel the renewed assurance that the ancient regard for knowledge is perpetuated in modern disciples, and we like to believe that we ourself are (as Professor Cartan so nobly phrased it) "passionately attached to the principle of free inquiry." This is the source of our own patriotism, for, with all its beguiling idiocies, America is still freely inquiring. (We get a questionnaire in every mail.) It is certain that in this country, more than in any other, the establishment of a court of wisdom would be a merry...
...therefore, an English politician declares that Germany does not need colonies because it is free to buy raw materials, then the declaration of this gentleman is about as intelligent as the question of the well-known Bourbon princess who at the sight of the revolutionary mob roaring for bread remarked in surprise, why, if the people did not have bread, did they not eat cake...
With their broad faces cracking wide in happy smiles one hard-raining evening last week, groups of loyal Dutch gathered under dripping trees at The Hague around a plain, white-painted house which anyone is free to approach. It was the Royal Palace of that good woman Wilhelmina of Orange-Nassau who for 46 of her 56 years has been Queen of The Netherlands...
...because the New Deal was an enthusiastic booster for the conference. Secretary of the Interior Ickes headed the American National Committee while the Executive Committee was chairmanned by Rural Electrification Administrator Morris L. Cooke. New Deal officials soothed timid power men with promises that the meetings would be kept free of political propaganda. Nevertheless, most of the agenda might have been phrases culled from Franklin Roosevelt's "non-political" campaign speeches: "The Public Regulation of Private Electric and Gas Utilities," "Organization, Financing and Operation of Publicly Owned Electric & Gas Utilities," "Planned Utilization of Water Resources," "Rural Electrification...