Word: frees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, while the House of Commons staged a full-fledged debate over whether Mr. Cube constituted plain advertising or political electioneering (British law requires that all electioneering expenses must be made public), Mr. Cube turned up in another incarnation. His sponsors distributed free some 500,000 sets of Mr. Cube dice, neatly boxed in a miniature sugar carton together with rules for a new game called TATE & STATE. Each of Tate's dice has one of the letters S T A t E and a portrait of Mr. Cube on one of its six sides. The rules...
...have to stop asking, is a man an Englishman, a Frenchman, a German, or a Jew? We have to get back to a free evaluation of the individual. If I look around at my four or five best friends, I find that two or three of them are Jews . . . I am their friend because between us there exists the human relationship of love. We need the courage to love. Hate stems from a sluggishness of the heart; it is cheap and easy. Love is always a risk, but only a risk brings victory...
Once a year, however, as long as he keeps the Boston conductorship, Munch expects to go back where they know about such things. His two-year contract (with an optional third) allows him plenty of free time in the summers, and he and Madame Munch plan to spend their vacations in Paris...
They were there to promote "New Strength for America"-their own confident combination of productive know-how, acre-straddling plants and free enterprise. But they also exhibited a sign of rare self-examination. They had invited as their guests 49 students, 32 college professors and school administrators from all over the U.S. From the younger generation N.A.M. hoped to get a new and fresh answer to the perennial question of N.A.M. and businessmen in general: How are we doing...
...government: "The American economy is not ... strong enough at present to carry the . . . mounting tax load . . . The continuance of fiscal uncertainty and instability will . . . undermine the system of free enterprise, by killing the incentives to take the risks essential to a dynamic, expanding economy...