Word: rear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sirs: For quite a while I have been watching the license tags on the automobiles that visit California, and I wish your advice on a very curious phenomenon. All the states of this country and the provinces of Canada require two tags, one in front and one in the rear, and both exactly alike.* However, three states, Arkansas, Texas and Tennessee, at various time, have seen fit to require the word "front" on the front license, and "rear" on the rear one.† It occurred to me in this connection that these States have passed laws banning the teaching...
...Jury Members were: California's Congresswoman Florence Prag Kahn, Missouri's onetime (1911-29) Senator James A Reed; Rt Rev. Monsignor John L. Belford of Brooklyn; Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, onetime (1913-21) White House physician; Rabbi Nathan Krass of Manhattan; Archdeacon Joseph Henry Dodshoti of Ohio, Episcopal clergyman; Pennsylvania's Congressman James Montgomery Beck...
...Motor Car Co., Ruxton builders) is the front-wheel drive, previously used in only a few trucks and racing cars.* Sponsors of the Ruxton maintain that the pull of the front-wheel drive is a more efficient application of power than the push of the conventional rear-wheel drive. More apparent to the layman is the ground-hugging streamline effect of the low structure made possible by the absence of the long drive shaft and rear-end differential. It is this low body which has made possible the elimination of the running-board-the passenger steps from the car directly...
...rear White House veranda Mrs. Hoover gave a tea last week. To it went as honor guests Yoshiro Ohta and Tamio Abe, Japanese team in the Davis Cup preliminaries. The same day, headlines screamed?DREADED JAPAN INVADER AT LAST ATTACKS CAPITAL! The "invader" was not the Japanese tennis players but Japanese beetles which had just been discovered in White House foliage. Department of Agriculture experts advanced upon the pests with chemicals...
...crew just beyond the Harvard Bridge. The strokes dropped to 29 and 28 as the water grew more troublesome, and the three boats continued downstream and across the finish line with the Sophomores three lengths ahead of the Junior eight, and Lawrence's Sophomore crew another length in the rear. The winning crew covered the course in 9 minutes, 50 seconds. This crew will row the winning Yale class crew on the Basin Saturday, afternoon...