Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aeronautics. Last year Secretary Ingalls put on a whopping good show over New York City and the Eastern coast, fixed the Navy's air service firmly in the public mind (TIME, May 19, 1930). This year Secretary Davison was determined that the Army's green-&-yellow aerial arm should outshine the Navy's silver planes...
...Mayor Meyer proposed a toast to the Presidents of France and the U. S. News photographers waited to catch the scene. Suddenly a chair scraped back. Mayor John Clinton Porter of Los Angeles had put his bubbly glass down and was standing up. He took his wife by the arm and stalked out of the room, saying something about refusing to be photographed amid such "law-breaking." After an embarrassing pause, Mayor Meyer repeated his toast. All the others drank it down...
...gave Swindler Owen the cachet not only of honor but of friendship with the great. Soon Dr. Owen got Oxford to give him an honorary M. A. He pretended that he already had the rank of Doctor (of Engineering), a rank highly esteemed in Europe.* He went about Oxford arm-in-arm with England's intellectually great and smart. Dr. Owen next persuaded the Ministry of Agriculture that he should visit the U. S., to study advanced methods in agricultural schools. He returned to England with the glad news that in California his wife had stumbled upon her long...
...Englewood, Col., last week Mrs. Roy Zilk saw a big squirrel in her chickenyard. She shushed at it, but it did not behave like an ordinary squirrel and run away. Instead it turned, glared, leaped at her, sank its teeth into her hand and arm...
From detailed measurement it is apparent that in the Harvard men all measurements have increased with the exception of head breath, breath of hips, and length of the upper arm. This means that Harvard men are taller and relatively more slender than their fathers, and have increased particularly in leg length, shoulder breadth, and thoracic circumference, but have decreased in hip breadth. The present evolution fervency is toward an accentuation of masculine characters of body build. As a matter for fact the same is true of the college daughters...