Word: frees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Park of Wheaton College witticised variously on the subject before an eminent gathering of teachers in Tremont Temple. "One of the greatest needs in this country today," he disclosed, at one point "is the establishment of two club colleges as near New York as possible which will help to free the regular colleges of the undesirabe materials now clogging them up.... They will offer close contact with bootleggers, lots of ash trays and easy chairs, all the advantages of fraternities and sororities, and plenty of opportunity for social recreation...
...engineer and economist. He does not make promises which he knows that he can not fulfill leaving himself loopholes of escape from their literal fulfillment. He has not tried to carry water on both shoulders by appealing both to the wets and the drys, both to the free traders and the protectionists, both to big business and its enemies. He has not, as has Governor Smith, suggested a change from the census of 1890 as the basis for immigration quotas and then changed his tune when he found that it was not popular...
Towards the end of the first quarter P. A. Ketchum '31 broke free and carried the ball 15 yards for the second touchdown. Post kicked the goal, making the score...
...Italian journalism is free because it serves only the cause and the regime. . . . Elsewhere the press is at the orders of plutocratic groups and vested interests, such as public utilities and the steel industry; elsewhere the press is reduced to buying and selling sensational news, whose reiterated reading causes in the public a kind of stupefied saturation, with symptoms of debility, inanition and imbecility; elsewhere newspapers are grouped in the hands of a few individuals who consider journalism an industry, like iron or leather...
Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute, has a way of calculating physiological age. He takes blood serum and centrifuges it until the serum is free of cells. In the serum he cultures pure tissue or tissue cells, generally fibroblasts. Simultaneously he cultures the same sort of tissue in a saline solution. The older a person is (physically) the slower will his tissues grow in his serum. The ratio of tissue growth in serum to tissue growth in salt solution is Dr. Carrel's "growth index...