Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editor & publisher of the new paper, Owner Cox picked conservative Dwight ("Deke") Young, 55, longtime editor of the old Journal and Herald. He would be free to support any candidates and policies he wanted to. The News and the Journal Herald would also have separate plants and separate, competitive news staffs. Owner Cox said he had "instructed the managing editors to beat each other's brains...
...chugging away on an active schedule. Up at 6 a.m., he makes his hospital rounds, sees office patients, holds consultations until late in the day. Ten years ago he laid down his scalpel, but he still watches operations, and he likes to show that his hand is still tremor-free. He still smokes ten cigars a day, and snaps off his hearing aid when ever a physician friend needles him to cut down...
...along the same pleasantly minor way. MacNeice's poems are bedded in the conviction that western man is living in a bad time and that he must make the most of each immediate moment. With this moderate epicureanism, he values most the pleasures of physical existence, the "daydream free from doubt" which is art, and an attitude of simple respect for fellow men. On such a tentative basis men can still live in the modern world...
Columbia handed Harvard's varsity basketball team its eighth straight defeat Saturday, 86 to 49, and in the process the Crimson helped their hosts to a new Lion scoring record. Their 37 field goals and 12 free shots surpassed a former high of 76 point against Princeton last season...
...group of Police retired in a state of quiet but vigilant apprehension, carefully balancing the advantages of the open gates against the danger of possible nefarious incursions into the Yard from without. They have little to fear, however. Their action has gone far to break down the bars to free inquiry at Harvard...