Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continue to make war against us and against yourselves you will meet opposition worthy of the mettle of our combatants, strong and implacable as the steel of our bayonets. Either peace for Spain or a fight to the death! We are ready for either. We are independent and free Spaniards. We have not on our conscience the responsibility for the destruction of our country...
Although he died within seven years, Louis Pasteur was wrong. For around his tomb, which stands in the largest of the three Institute buildings, moves a crowd of busy scientists who are so passionately devoted to Pasteur's ideals of free criticism and painstaking experiment that his lifetime has really been projected into the future. Many of his successors still use his old furniture, work with his old instruments. And janitor of the Institute is old Joseph Meister. "I shall see always Pasteur's good face focused on me," he tells Institute visitors...
...Montgomery prays extempore, never repeats himself. Excerpt from one of his prayers: "Father in Heaven, free our understanding from all fatal errors and release our souls from the clogging and binding fetters of sense...
...Flanders (now Belgium) 600 years ago, painting was just another craft. Like brewers, dyers and weavers who were .hen bringing wealth to its free cities, painters were organized in solid guilds. They had rules of long apprenticeship, traditions of craft, stiff standards for 'masters." Flemings were lucky, because this medieval system lasted at least a century longer among them than anywhere else, led to the great technical discovery of oil painting and its first masters-Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, Hans Memling, Roger van der Weyden...
...Brazilian Pact may set in motion a series of United States, Latin-American trade arrangements that will change the whole complexion of the South American situation. The closer the Pan-American ties become, the less the danger of European totalitarian philosophy, and the brighter the future of freedom and free trade, at least in the Western Hemisphere...