Word: frees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years after, four years after, the free world could hardly be said to have a new path, a new way of its own. But paths, they say in New England, are made by going around rocks. The Western world had found what it wanted to avoid. In the warlike peace, it had discovered a little of a new pride in its old standards. It had almost learned new humility in which the Germans and the Japanese, for all the evil they had done, might become comrades in the struggle against evil...
Another remedy might be reciprocity with the U.S., and, if the U.S. is willing, free trade across the border. Canadians rejected wide reciprocity when U.S. President William Howard Taft proposed it in 1911. They feared it would lead to a customs union, the destruction of Canadian industries and the ultimate loss of Canadian independence. They would be wary of it today for the same reasons...
...Rose Horse. But moderns were more interested in what Delacroix had thought about color, for his free & easy use of it sometimes foreshadowed the Fauves ("Wild Beasts") and modern art. In last week's Saturday Review of Literature, Critic James Thrall Soby described the storm that one of his canvases, La Justice de Trajan, raised in the Salon of 1840: "The picture barely survived the Salon's jury, an astonishing fact when we consider that Delacroix had been painting professionally for more than 20 years and was famous throughout Europe . . . Once accepted and hung, the picture created...
...column ("At the Capitol'') in the New Mexican. He has put the finger on an attorney general who was drawing a salary as a corporation lawyef on the side, exposed an unpardoned felon who was serving in the state senate, complained about the potash industry's "free ride" until the legislature tripled its taxes, uncovered a former governor's use of the highway department to pave his private property. Harrison's sarcastic nickname for Governor Mabry, "the first-floor governor"-to distinguish him from Commissioner1 of Revenue (and Democratic political boss) Victor Salazar, "the second...
...column ("At the Capitol'') in the New Mexican. He has put the finger on an attorney general who was drawing a salary as a corporation lawyef on the side, exposed an unpardoned felon who was serving in the state senate, complained about the potash industry's "free ride" until the legislature tripled its taxes, uncovered a former governor's use of the highway department to pave his private property. Harrison's sarcastic nickname for Governor Mabry, "the first-floor governor"-to distinguish him from Commissioner1 of Revenue (and Democratic political boss) Victor Salazar, "the second...