Word: rear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard Rear-Admiral Hugh Rodman, U. S. N. retired, say: "There is little or no use in having an inferior navy. You might just as well expect a lame mule to win the Kentucky Derby...
...where Danny Daniels, burglar-murderer, and five desperate comrades were inducting the worst prison revolt in Colorado's history, came sporadic shrieks, bullets and curses. They were holding 16 guards as hostages. About 175 convicts, refusing to join "Danny Daniels' party," were huddled in the rear of the cellhouse. At 7 p.m., the bullet-torn body of J. J. Elles, the prison hangman, was hurled out of a window in Cellhouse No. 3. Rescuers rushed him to a hospital but he soon died. At 7:15 p.m. another punctured body was hurled out. It was Guard...
When these statements appeared in the press, newsgatherers at once sought to question Cary Travers Grayson M. D., the naval physician whom Woodrow Wilson raised to a Rear-Admiral's rank and kept beside him at the White House. But Dr. Grayson was inaccessible in Europe. From the late President's daughters-Miss Margaret Wilson, Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre, Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo-came no statements. The President's widow was inaccessible in the Orient...
...first group was the social group. Nice-young-men-from-good-families, who made up the more decorative part of the student body. . . . Group number two, quite as definite, was the wicked group- an off-colour mixture of boys from all races and all families, who sat in the rear of the rooms and cried their vices to each other . . . were still young enough to regard a prostitute as an adventure. . . . The third group was the group of serious students who were not social about it . . . went in for higher mathematics, and for chess, and for physics." Mr. Lipshutz made...
...argument. The Lieutenant wanted to fly the plane alone. Mr. Guggenheim, a flyer himself, insisted that Lieutenant Benjamin Kelsey, who had assisted in the research, occupy the front seat, to take control in case accident happened. Piqued, daring (TIME, Sept. 30) Lieutenant Doolittle consented. He crawled into the rear cockpit, hauled an opaque cloth entirely over himself and instruments, which were illuminated, gave the plane the gun. Off were the two men. Lieutenant Kelsey with his arms resting on the gunwales, Lieutenant Doolittle completely shrouded. Fourteen miles in all he flew, seeing nothing but his instruments. Certainly, assuredly, he made...