Word: freeing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...reading room for children was formally opened yesterday afternoon in East Cambridge by the Christian Association. It is called the Harvard Free Library and is located at 133 Fifth street. Children between seven and fifteen are allowed to take out books between 3.30 and 5.30 every week day afternoon and to keep them for one week. The number of children who wish to take out books has so far exceeded the most liberal estimate and the number of volumes should be doubled at once. Yesterday 187 children applied for membership. Men who have juvenile books of any sort are urged...
...reasonable consistency, the two great sets of interests, and the two great types of character, which in modern self-governing communities have usually lain at the basis of party system. One, I believe, has stood and still stands in the main for an effective government, the other for a free government. One seeks an equalization of welfare and opportunity; the other bulwarks the historical rights of property. One is responsive to the changeful voice of the popular will; the other follows the intelligent guidance of successful men of affairs. One is the party of ideas and ideals, the party...
...theories of government; the Republican, when there are times of foreign danger and necessity for practical and strong legislation. In thus summing up the composition and policies of the two parties, he says in his closing paragraph, "A citizen . . . will support the strong government party when he must, the free government party when he dares. . . . For there be two Jinn, two slaves of the lamp, that serve the Republic. One, the nimbler and the more intelligent, is best employed in the care of its material interests, its bodily welfare. The other, a turbulent, huge, and mighty demon, guards with ferocious...
...several end runs, but most of Pennsylvania's gains were on line plays. The guards back play, executed with great dash and power, was very effective and considerable ground was gained on a revolving mass play which drew in the Chicago ends and then allowed the runner to get free for a run in the open field. Hare kicked a goal from the field and made a goal from every one of the six touchdowns...
...This bone is then imbedded in a piece of blubber and frozen there so that it retains its Z shape. When a wolf sees one of these balls of blubber he swallows the mass whole. The heat of his stomach melts the blubber and the whalebone, thus set free, straightens out with a violent spring, piercing the walls of the stomach and so killing the animal...