Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...condition of many of the children from the large industrial areas is a disgrace to our civilization* Evacuation has thrown a sudden searchlight on the evils of which the majority of citizens are ignorant. It showed that there still exists a submerged tenth over which squalor, ignorance and vice reign supreme...
Newspaper stories of a reign of terror in the schools aroused the B.B.R. to investigation. Gist of Chairman Schantz's report: pupils are misunderstood; teachers and pupils should regularly talk over personal and school problems; courses should be revised by people "with modern ideas for modern students"; pupils should be allowed "any choice of subjects which they feel might be of use"; there should be more recreational centers...
Harvard's skiers were no match for the tough competition at the Dartmouth Carnival ski tournament Saturday, ending seventh in a field of eight. New Hampshire's well-balanced team copped the championship, ending Dartmouth's long reign as the best in New England...
Jansen and Weyl, who have felt Naziism's heavy hand, forecast a reign of terror in the Reich before the Nazis' grip is loosed. This punishment, they believe, is inevitable and must be suffered. But they take issue with those who class all Germans as Nazi brutes whose record bars them forever from a place in future world affairs. They predict for Germany "a government of the people, by the people and for the people" which will be established by a democratic revolution. As Social Democrats and members of the Underground they speak...
...radio's Town Crier he got a big audience for his twelve-cylinder whimsies and became a cultural campaigner of such influence as had not been known since the palmy days of William Lyon Phelps. His fee rose to $3,500 a broadcast. His reign covered about eight years (1929-37). He was a national phenomenon...