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Liberal city (1990 pop. 16,573), seat of Seward co., SW Kans.; founded 1888, inc. 1945. It is the trade center for a grazing and farm area. Oil and natural gas are extracted, and helium is processed in the city. Meatpacking and sand and gravel are also important to the economy. The traditional International Pancake Race between the housewives of Liberal and Olney, England, is held annually on Shrove Tuesday.

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Liberal (1822–4), a magazine of four issues only, conceived by Shelley, but carried out after his death by Byron and Leigh Hunt from Pisa. In its pages appeared Byron's The Vision of Judgement and his Heaven and Earth, and work by Shelley, Hunt, Hazlitt, J. Hogg, and others.

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liberal pert. to the arts considered ‘worthy of a free man’; free in bestowing XIV; †unrestrained XV; free from prejudice XVIII; (of political opinion) XIX. — (O)F. libéral — L. līberālis, f. līber free, rel. to Gr. eleutheros; see -AL1.
So liberality XIV. liberate XVII. — f. L. līberāt—, —āre. liberation XV. — (O)F. or L.

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