Word: rear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rear Admiral William S. Sims, now retired, made a number of speeches in California severely criticising our Government's naval policy. He laid stress on the need for an efficient force of aeroplanes and submarines, and in more than one of his speeches he mentioned the island of Guam...
...Ford's men. (P. 26.) Rabbi Wise, orating in a Methodist Church. (P. 26.) Gilbert M. Hitchcock-not too proud to be a journalist. (P. 21.) Rear-Admiral Weeks. (P. 7.) Brainless women-who make the best wives. (P. 19.) An average speed of 250 miles an hour-in a blinding sandstorm. (P. 27.) Victor Hindmarch-when his non-stop dancing partner retired a-faint, he continued with a woman spectator. (P. 31.) "Laddie"; Sanford - American sportsman. (P. 28.) A Supreme Court potent enough to do "ten times as much work as it did in the days of Marshall...
Down at New Haven, someone wanted to rear a brazen bulldog in a public place, to symbolize the spirit of the Yale teams. But when the secretaries of the classes who would have given it were consulted, the proposal met with unanimous and overwhelming opposition. Probably, these secretaries saw visions of thousands of editorials, filled with "golden calves" and "sacrifices to Molech" and were wise...
...glance at Emmanuel of the seventeenth century throws interesting light on the influences acting and reacting upon the contemporary "younger generation." Founded ostensibly to train orthodox ministers, Emmanuel tended more and more to rear Puritans and Calvinists. Chaderton, its first master, while maintaining his connection with the Church of England, was one of the most respected and most powerful supporters of the Puritan ideals. So eloquent and absorbing were his sermons that at the end of one two-hour session, he was greeted by shouts of "For God's sake, sir, go on, go on," from his student audience...
...steersman and oarsmen, complete in their long baggy breeches, were clad in white with the exception of a black waistcoat. At the rear of the resplendent boat the Caliph flew for the first time his personal standard, a green flag with a white star and crescent on a scarlet center, from which spread a number of white rays...