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...Herbert Hoover, Robert Taft and the other pleaders for a defensive foreign policythe policy of retreat to what Hoover called a Western Gibraltar. Arizona's apple-cheeked Ernest McFarland, rising to his first test as a majority leader of the new Senate, gave the debate free rein: "It is this clash of honest judgment and conviction . . . which results in sounder policy," he said...
Within the strict limits he sets himself, Wyeth's carefully wrought tempera paintings almost invariably succeed in being both clear and convincing. Strangely enough, his watercolors, which he dashes off in a hurry, do too. In them his love of nature (preferably bleak) has much freer rein, and in them he proves himself a delicate and sensitive draftsman, not merely a careful...
Although William J. Bighham '16, director of athletics, will not reveal his rein on the subject until the meeting, Yale's Robert Hall has already committed himself...
...Later, when reporters got a look at the first mimeographed texts of the statement, they found no mention of the words "at this time." The President added them as an afterthought, the Secretary of State explained, to give the U.S. free rein to take bases where needed "in the unlikely and unhappy event...
Something Interesting. In his youth Dr. Langmuir was described by a harassed aunt as "that inquisitive boy." At Schenectady, G.E. gave his inquisitive nature free rein: he was told not to bother with practical applications, but to look around the laboratory and work on any problem which interested him. On one project he worked for three years, introducing various gases into an incandescent lamp bulb just to see what would happen. In 1912 he made his first important discovery: an electric bulb filled with nitrogen was more efficient than the so-called "vacuum" bulb, since the gas retards evaporation...