Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...careful inspection of athletic records will reveal that a surprising percentage of games are won mainly because of penalties, especially in soccer, hockey, and football. If we are ever to have contests which are free from the fallacies of the rule books, the various committees must overhaul their systems of rulemaking and revision. As it is now, the best team does not always win. It is occasionally the team which gets a lucky break from the almighty regulations. Robert F. Lawson...
...corner drove the price skyhigh. The court shook its head over the slick trick Cargill, Inc. had used to import Canadian rye cheaply and break the market. Cargill apparently had been able to do so by crawling through a loophole in the law that permitted the import of rye free of duty, if it were sold for feed. (Cargill got the Bureau of Customs to give it one year's time in which to show that this grain was used for feed.) This, said the court, gave Cargill an "unfair" advantage over other traders. But this, too, was self...
...humanist and a typically humorless academic product of pre-Hitler German Kultur. This combination of dates, musical genius and philosophical reflection gives Mann, as his old readers could easily guess, a chance to air his views on such Mannish concerns as the problem of the artist in society, the free play of mind v. regimented thought, the relationship of disease to creative activity and the "German problem," before, during & after Hitler. Faustus can in fact be read as an intellectual sequel to The Magic Mountain, that massive and brilliant examination of European thought on the eve of World...
...Young Republicans will also stage the biggest election-night victory celebration. Memorial Hall has been turned over to their festival, which lasts from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Free beer, dancing, radio, and television are on the bill...
...HYRC will introduce the winners of its two recent contests at the celebration. Lester L. Ward '52 has received a free Yale weekend for the best essay on "Why Dewey Should be Elected," while Donald M. Long '49 will get a biography of Herbert Hoover for writing "The Worst Thing a Republican Can be Called in 12 Words or Less...