Word: frees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...specialist becomes curious about a subject lying beyond his limited horizon and takes a course in it of his own free will, that is another story; or if he argues about it with a fellow student and then starts to read on his own account, that is best of all. Courses for the unwilling are necessarily perfunctory, and a single course in an unrelated subject often fails to be assimilated. If we could agree on what should constitute a liberal education for every stu- dent who was graduated from Harvard and if we could test...
...Harvard to be impressed on you its life will pass you by. This is so because there is no recognizable pattern here, no definite ideal to conform to. Henry Adams, who understood Harvard better than any man in the last century, said that the University left the mind "free from bias and docile," and he considered that an achievement...
...That up to Jan. 1, 1939, Good Housekeeping operated a shopping service through which readers could buy articles advertised in the magazine. "This shopping service [now discontinued] was advertised as being a free service for the convenience of readers, when in truth and in fact, Good Housekeeping received substantial commissions from sellers of all merchandise sold...
...daily press, which saw something dangerously approaching censorship, the wholesalers attributed the ban to their fear of libel suits. In the 15 years it has been circulated in Great Britain TIME has never been sued for libel. Though startled by the ban in a country which boasts of its free press, TIME planned no action, left the business of Britain's press censorship up to Britain's press itself...
Cats may look at kings, but extras rarely criticize producers. Recently, however, Manila's Philippines Free Press carried a disturbing communication from one of the 1,000 members of Los Angeles' Filipino colony who have been working on Producer Samuel Goldwyn's $2,000,000 epic of the Philippine pacification, The Real Glory. "This Hollywood idea," railed Mr. Goldwyn's Filipino, "of 60 Filipino soldiers being made to cower and shrink by one Juramentado [a Moro fanatic who expects heavenly reward in proportion to the number of Christians he kills] appears to some...