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Word: rear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of interest, allow me to quote the following taken from "The Military Surgeon" of August 1927 under the title "Reminiscences of the American-Filipino War, 1899" by Surgeon Rear Admiral C. M. Beadnell, R. N., C. B., K. H. P., at that time a Junior Medical Officer in the British Navy, and courteously "lent" to the American Forces, who were short medical officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 24, 1927 | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...Navy Department's "Magruder" was plain-spoken Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder who commands only the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The War Department's "Magruder" was really a "Super-Magruder" because he was Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, and topmost soldier of them all. Touring the West to inspect Army stations, General Summerall last week stood up before the San Diego (Calif.) Chamber of Commerce and said: "The housing situation of the Army is a disgrace! Men are living in quarters at Camp Hearn like workers in a logging camp. The same condition prevails at other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Super-Magruder | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder having commanded attention for the subject with his writing in the Saturday Evening Post, Navy faultfinders less eminent but no less vehement are now able to make themselves heard. One such faultfinder is Dr. W. Armistead Gills, U. S. N. retired. Dr. Gills has written two books-The Price of a Sailor's Life and Three Years Under the Hammer-to set forth what he considers gross ineptitude in the Navy health service. Not until last week, however, did his objections attain the resonance of front page headlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: More Magruders | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

Cried Dr. Gills: ". . . Any information [about Navy health] which Rear Admiral Magruder lack's, I can give him. . . . We need more Magruders and fewer recruiting posters. . . .In the interest of human life, I do not propose to be muzzled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: More Magruders | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...Levaud, French inventor, knew this. Since then, he has been tampering, tinkering, planning, pondering and putting together bits of metal which in final form turn out to be a sensible automotive vehicle with no middle parts to fuss over at all. The motor transmits propulsive force directly to the rear end without intercession of transmission gears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shiftless Auto | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

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