Word: rear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur announced the appointment of the 27th Superintendent of the Academy, Rear Admiral Louis McCoy Nul- ton, who is to succeed Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, the present superintendent, who retires...
...Rear Admiral Wilson, the retiring commandant, is a man of unusual charm. Under his superintendence the midshipmen at the academy have been allowed considerable more liberty than during previous regimes. Under previous Superintendents, midshipmen, except first class men, were not allowed to go into "town" or to smoke. Admiral Wilson has also allowed more holiday recesses. One of his contributions as Superin- tendent has been a great improvement in the grounds of the Academy...
...through the northern Pacific and around the world, set down in his journal that "the weather was serene and pleasant, and the country continued to exhibit between us and the eastern snowy range the same luxuriant appearance. ..." The round, snowy mountain, now forming its southern extremity . . . after my friend Rear Admiral Rainier, I distinguished by the name Mount Rainier." So it was known afterwards...
...flashing swords to a royal salute. Somewhere in the background the drums of the Grenadier Guards rolled and the band broke into the national anthem. The massive main iron gates were thrown open and through them slowly passed the state coach, six footmen walking on either side. In the rear the Captain of the Household Cavalry led his troop and the small procession passed out into the Mall beyond the Victorial Monument amid deafening cheers from a million uncovered heads and the flutterings of handkerchiefs from the hands of the heads that were covered. On either side soldiers...
...riders would come, bringing bands, flags, popcorn, whiskey, noise. Now and again an ambitious rider, chafing at the long grind, would flash forth and seek to lap the field with a burst of speed. The pack would leap out in pursuit, catch him, or he it, from the rear, then settle down again. Every few hours came compulsory sprints, for points. And bored spectators would sometimes get the announcer's ear, offer $20, $100, to the winner of a special sprint. Megaphoned to, the riders would tense, dart away, tear over the line, then drop into the slower, mile-devour...