Word: rear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general plans of the Navy for developing its fleet bases was made public. A board on "shore establishments," of which Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman is the head, has drawn up a program for developing two naval bases on the Pacific Coast, two on the Atlantic, one at Panama, one at Hawaii...
...calm, good and honest Mongolian people; I read their souls, saw their sufferings and hopes; I witnessed the whole horror of their oppression and fear before the face of Mystery, there where Mystery pervades all life. I watched the rivers during the severe cold break with a rumbling rear their chains of ice: saw lakes cast up on their shores the bones of human beings: heard unknown wild voices in the mountain ravines: made out the fires over miry swamps of the will o'-the-wisps: witnessed burning lakes: gazed upward to mountains whose peaks could not be scaled: came...
...final beat by yards, not exerting himself until the end. W. T. Pratt 2d, a former Yale swimmer, and Harold Kruger, unattached, were finalists with Weismuller. Pratt finished second fully 20 feet in the rear of Weismuller, while Kruger came in last...
There are two solutions. The simplest is to shift the responsibility to the collective imagination of the audience. Drape the stage with silk curtains, put two chairs in front, twin beds in the rear, and page Mr. Avery Hopwood. Or (as in Dagmar, the sophisticated melodrama with Nazi mova), put three beach chairs on a yellow stage with a blue backdrop and call it the seashore. In Mary the 3rd, Rachel Crothers' humorous tragedy of incompatibility, the first two scenes are mounted only with draperies, a modicum of furniture, and off-stage music...
...half laps, but Murphy's strong finish in the last 50 yards sent Vinton Chapin '23 off with a five-yard lead over Holden of Technology. This advantage the Crimson runner was unable to retain, for he was soon passed and was three yards in the rear when he handed over the baton to J. E. Merrill '24, who ran third in both races. Merrill did not gain on Joyce, so that Burke, at anchor, was several yards behind Bateman, when he started off on the final relay. The University captain pressed his opponent for two laps, passed...