Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grover Whalen admits that the fair is being run as a hardheaded business venture and not a philanthropy, that wherever the fair could turn an honest penny, it has done so. Those who bought the most fair bonds got a break. The fair pipes in water free from the city but is metering its tenants. Concessionaires' cash registers are rented from the fair. Many are the sharp but legal practices. The usual forms of building graft were supposedly prevented by strict competitive bidding for contracts. But it is quite possible some insiders stand to profit handsomely from the real...
Finale to Hornblower's saga is unconventional. As England's great hero of the hour, knighted, rich, free to marry his Lady Barbara, he suddenly realizes in the midst of his triumphs that from then on he is not going to have any more...
...boast of the new stock of knowledge he has acquired and the new ideas such knowledge has engendered, then and only then will your crusade be won. Short of this there are only palliative. Of course, the Corporation might hire persons to organize a student's work for him free, thus driving the commercial house out of business. But that would simply be a transference and enlargement of the evil. The students might "gang-up" on the cream schools and declare a boycott, but that would only throw the organizing job back upon themselves where it belongs...
With admission free and festivities commencing at 9 o'clock, the big stag party will feature a starting array of talent plus the additional attraction of free refreshments to be dispensed in Memorial Hall. Drinks donated by Hires, Moxie, and Coca Cola, ice cream from Hood's, and Chiclet chewing gum will be distributed, and all who attend will also be presented with cigarettes, tobacco, and pipes given by Leavitt and Pierce, and by Liggett and Myers...
Healey issued five passes before he was yanked with none out in the seventh, two more free tickets than he had given since the spring trip. Slim Curtiss took over the twirling duties at that point, and four Cornell runs scored before he was able to retire the side...