Word: frees
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large interests, are the obstacles to securing uniformity in railroad service. These difficulties in the question of reasonable rates are inherent, and therefore the whole matter should be considered in a broad and liberal spirit. The Inter-state act has not yet entirely done away with the evils of free transportation. An assumption that the public is not concerned in a company's granting free transportation is common; but it is a fallacy, since the free rider travels at the expense of the public. It is therefore as much a public question as taxation. Judge Cooley discussed this point...
...undergraduate to think seriously of taking up music as a profession. Music was then considered to be rather an idle occupation, more like amusement than serious work, and the life of a musician did not present an attractive prospect. But of late years music has been more free from this stigma, and all the arts are meeting with public appreciation. A musician cannot become a rich man, but he may be a very happy one. Unless he has an independent income, he must do more or less teaching, and, indeed, ability to teach is a requirement of the greatest importance...
...government at Nicargua has done much to help the enterprise. It has given the land for the canal free, together with strips of land on both sides of it, and all mines and timber that may be in this land. Moreover It allows all the machinery used in the construction of the canal to be imported free. Also the government has pledged itself to permit no other canal in its territory. The lecture was illustrated by viewsand maps thrown by a stereopticon...
...gods, and the story represented must be some wellknown myth, one which the whole audience knew in its main outlines. The story of the Medea of Euripides was told at this point to illustrate this. The writers of comedy were not thus limited, but were allowed to give free rein to their originality. This is Illustrated in the "Clouds," where Aristophanes attacks the new spirit of inquiry and culture which was growing up at Athens...
...Article IX makes Strait of Canso free, which it has not always been:- Cases cited by Morgan. Congressional Record...