Word: reared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Supreme Court in 1870 when it ruled that the Army could not confiscate from Major Henry Hopkins Sibley his design for an Army tent, was upheld last week by Justice Wendell Holmes Stafford of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, who directed the Government to pay Rear-Admiral Bradley Allen Fiske, retired, $198,500 or $500 each for 397 naval airplanes now using a torpedo-discharging device originally Fiske-designed, Fiske-patented...
...letter of Thomas T. Gill in the issue of June 24 and your footnotes appended, concerning license tags on cars, was interesting. He named three States (your footnote adding another) designating their tags as front and rear, and likewise the three States had laws banning the teaching of the theory of evolution in state-aided schools. I wish to add that Kentucky also has the front tag designated as front and the rear designated as, "Kentucky for Progress." The last motto is a standing joke among Kentuckians and many motorists have been fined for mutilating their tags to obliterate this...
...English Channel, as the City of Ottawa had done 100 times before, one of her engines went wrong. The pilot at the controls turned the plane back toward England. Three miles from Dungeness she struck the water. The passengers were dashed to the floor. Heavy baggage in a rear compartment smashed through a thin partition and clumped upon the passengers. Struggling desperately, four passengers, the pilot and mechanic kicked and tore their way out of the fuselage. They went back in and tried to haul the baggage off the others. As they worked the seven drowned. It was the fifth...
Suddenly two figures leaped up before him in the middle of the road. One held a sign: STOP! U. S. CUSTOMS OFFICERS. Virkula braked his car but had not stopped before a volley of shot tore through the rear windows. The car plunged into a ditch. Virkula was dead, a slug in his neck...
President of the National Aeronautic Association is Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut. The members of the advisory board include Assistant Secretaries for Aeronautics F. Trubee Davison, David S. Ingalls and William P. MacCracken Jr.; and Flying Chiefs Maj.-Gen. J. E. Fechet of the Army, Rear-Adm. W. A. Moffett of the Navy. Other members are Harry F. Guggenheim, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart...