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Word: rein (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the competitive system seems to set mere men at the whim of imponderable elements beyond their ken or control and give free rein to huge competing combines that must, by their very nature, reach the point of saturation, obsolescence, and final destruction, a survey of present day democracy gives pause to those who wish to believe that in public ownership or control there lies a solution for periodic industrial collapse. Legislatures composed of individuals apparently forced to spend as much as possible for the delight of local constituents make the trusteeship of common welfare a grisly political farce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

...significance which plodding German critics like to read into their works. They just painted. It is therefore the surrealists' premise that all that is necessary to produce art is to stand in front of a canvas with a wet brush in your hand and give your emotions a free rein. Surrealist Crotti is so certain of the value of his products that he rejects oil paint as too impermanent, works only in lacquer. All his colors are especially ground for him with varnish or turpentine as a base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Surrealist | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

...cast will be as follows: Joseph, J. F. Joyce Jr. '32: G. C. Turner '32. Herod; R. L. C. Rein'l '34, Isiah; W. S. Burrage, J. C. Cort '35, and W. B. Cudahy '34, the Three Kings; R. A. Dunn '32, Captain of the Guard: James Carleton '32, Marshal Smith '32, T. F. Crane '33, M. J. Crowley '34, and S. C. Munroe attendants to the king, Bettye Jeanne Crocker, Mary; Marie Driscoll, Rose Mary McKew, and Barbara Wertheim, Nuns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB PICKS CAST FOR MIRACLE PLAY | 12/19/1931 | See Source »

Written by Miss Dorothy Abbott, author of "For Someone Else", which was presented at the School last spring, "The Other One" is a study of a dual personality. The Harvard men who will have parts in it are O. M. Nichols '32, R. L. C. Rein'l '34, and Eric Walz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMA SCHOOL PRESENTS "THE OTHER ONE" TONIGHT | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...know that it was the "spirit of fair play" that motivated British voters in returning the Labour Party to power, but it does seem a shame that this same spirit should not have swept them on to giving the Labour government the "full rein" mentioned in the editorial. Perhaps such an excess of "fair play" would not have been in accord with what the editorial writer so aptly calls "the fundamental soundness of the English nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drink Her Down | 10/30/1931 | See Source »

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