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Word: reines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guard of impotent Liberals cried: "How can we hope for peace while the Government skids on the road? Had the Government held to a single policy- almost any policy-the miners would be back at work today. The Chancellor of the Exchequer should have been given a free rein to enforce his peace proposals upon the owners." Premier Baldwin replied: "We cannot force an agreement by legislation." Significantly the Premier went on to load the Miners' Federation with the blame for continuing the coal strike. Thus, he repudiated by implication Mr. Churchill's stand. Statistics released last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Strike Cracking | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...Whether or not he was a fake medium, a paranoiac, epileptic, self-deluded, oversexed demagog, Mohammed was undoubtedly a grand and grotesque figure with a good memory and a shrewd pagan appraisal of Moses and Jesus as capable men who had founded religions by giving their subconscious selves free rein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

...officers of the CRIMSON. Previous experience, either in college or in school newspaper work is unnecessary for the student who wishes to enter one of these competitions, which offer work of a varied nature. In all departments candidates are from the start given responsible work and a free rein to their individual talents and ingenuity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON WILL RECEIVE CANDIDATES WEDNESDAY | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

...Espino. The bookies had Crusader at 4 to 5; Mars, they thought, was out of the running, and any poor fool who had a dollar to put on Espino could get ten back if that unruly horse was first. Maiben, up on Crusader, let an inch of rein slip through his hands; the huge horse lunged forward; Mars, his courage broken, slipped behind; only Espino hung on. Inch by inch, his jockey scissoring like a swimming frog, Espino crept up, passed Crusader, won the $26,100 Lawrence Realization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Belmont | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

Rearing the healthy little animal is comparatively easy. Destroying Lottie, the handsome, ignorant grown animal, is difficult indeed. The ruse of giving Lottie rein in a cheap flirtation fails through Ralph's weak forgiveness. Mrs. Bascomb lives away for some years, torn free. When she returns things are worse than before. Small Dids is "on the town," getting tough while Lottie joyrides; Ralph is still grubbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: First Mother | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

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