Word: rear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While other Navy officials were celebrating Navy Day* with glad hearts, Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder, who so loves the Navy that he dared accuse it of large faults, received a shock. He and most other people had supposed the recent "Magruder Incident" was closed (TIME, Oct. 10). Now came a curt telegram from Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur, detaching Admiral Magruder from his post at the Philadelphia Navy Yard...
...view with alarm the increased supervision of private life by Federal authority, and to the satisfaction of persons who like to think of the U. S. Government as "Uncle Sam," Eric H. Palmer Jr.'s license was suspended for 90 days by the Federal Radio Commission, whose chairman, Rear Admiral William Hannum Grubb Bullard, addressed Eric H. Palmer Jr. as follows...
Along the front of the main wing and in front of the rear ailerons, spectators found a tiny curved plane when the machine landed. Automatically extending itself by air pressure on the wing, the enlarged surface grips the air when the plane stalls; props it; forbids the wing dip which precedes the spin...
...Carews are a mad tribe. There is pirate blood in their veins, repeating itself with fine atavism. Hate later turns to vicious admiration when Elsa sees Bayliss theatrically sitting a new pony, making it rear, yanking it up until there is scarleted froth on its bit irons. He goes to college, to war, to the devil; returns, as he says of one of his girls- healthy, clean, pretty. And his tribe dominates the landscape, roistering, riding hard. They have always succeeded, always dominated, always failed, in a hot-blooded cycle: "The Carew men have always taken what they wanted, where...
Married. Newton Alexander McCully, 60, Rear Admiral in the U. S. Navy; to Mrs. Olga Krundycher, 29, Russian. In 1920, he adopted seven Russian children. (TIME, Sept...