Word: rein
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which such traditions are based that are trouble provoking, but the predictions themselves. It is doubtful if England and America would participate in disastrous war merely because of dissension over debt settlement, oil rights, or the sovereignty of Chicago. But with Admiral Plunketts and their British prototypes allowed free rein, the eventuality becomes possible. In 1908, it has been pointed out, Winston Churchill found the possibility of Anglo-German hostilities incredible; now twenty years later the same is logically time of the present situation. Let the two countries in a foment of patriotism be awakened to a mutual distrust...
...Poincare. Because he averted a national panic in 1926 by rescuing the franc from what seemed a bottomless decline, the Chamber now allows him the authority of an absolute dictator over French finance. His reactionary ideas of foreign policy are not, however, stomached by the Chamber, which gives loose rein to that great, constructive pacifist, Foreign Minister Aristide Eriand. The Senate is always ready to follow M. Poincare's conservative financial policies and ever suspicious of M. Briand's peace innovations...
...self government," and prohibits the municipal police from entering university property. Only the national army police may make. arrests on a Hungarian campus; and they were not ordered out last week by Count Bethlen, a cold, closelipped, bony statesman inclined to let Conservatives and anti-Semities have loose rein...
...hence unable to pay her debts, seems to have been without foundation. And there is at least one paradox in the spectacle of the wealthiest nation in the world pausing long over a half billion dollar loan to her own merchant marine, while Germany needs a foreign check-rein to keep her from staking her last cent on German enterprise...
...President Coolidge spurred Horse Mistletoe suddenly. Horse Mistletoe ran away, for about a quarter-mile, before "Dakota" Clyde Jones caught up and President Coolidge could rein in. This was the last time President Coolidge rode Horse Mistletoe in the Black Hills...