Word: frees
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...horse-hungry groups. Among the novelties he touted: a towering, three-tiered grandstand (only one in the U. S.), with a clear view of the finish line from every one of its 13,000 seats; a saddling paddock in front instead of behind the grandstand; a circular bar (with free hors d'oeuvres at 4 o'clock sharp) overlooking San Francisco Bay; "elephant trains," salvaged from the Exposition's dismantled Treasure Island, to transport latecomers from the far end of the vast parking area. Instead of tractors to haul the huge starting gate around, California...
Bred in the academic tradition, Whitney at first ventured only a gingerly toe into the unknown water of industrial research. When he found that he really had a free hand, he took on the G. E. experiment as a full-time job. Things began to hum. The basic experiments of William Coolidge on tungsten, of Irving Langmuir on gas-filled (instead of evacuated) bulbs led to modern electric lamps. The Coolidge and Langmuir experiments also produced high-power X-ray tubes, portable X-ray sets, high-capacity electronic tubes...
...last week the Church of England's two primates, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, made history by jointly signing a letter to the London Times with Arthur Cardinal Kinsley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, and Dr. Walter H. Armstrong, Joint Secretary of the Federal Council of the Free Churches. Winston Churchill has avoided any statement of war aims, so the churchmen set up "five standards" as a post-war plan to guide statesmen. Like the Sermon on the Mount, the standards quite clearly presupposed a new society...
...Skap" stuck to her guns. "The Paris designer is free," said she, expressing annoyance at questions implying a new order in France. Some fashion experts began talking of "Skap's" Italian origin. They saw no other logical reason for her leaving a lucrative U. S. perfume business and a personable U. S. citizen daughter (Greenwich Village-born, British-schooled "Gogo") for a questionable future "helping her former employes in Paris...
Uncle Gyko "was getting all his dope free from the theosophy-philosophy-astrology-and-miscellaneous shelf at the Public Library." He profoundly mistrusted Aram's mentor, Lionel Strongfort. But Strongfort and Yoga together only got Aram a bad last place in the 50-yard dash. So Gyko became again "one of the boys around town, drinking, staying up all hours, and following the women...