Word: reared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although O'Neil's remarkable performance in the half-mile was the feature of the afternoon, the mile and quarter-mile were also run in fast time. Allen of Andover, coming from the rear with a wonderful spurt in the last 100 yards, captured the quarter by two yards in 51 and three-fifths seconds...
...Mexico, Obregon was threatened from front and rear. There were the "reactionaries"-old Spanish landlords who resented the new ideas of liberty, corrupt officials, the rich Catholic Church. On the other side were red radicals so drunk with revolution that there seemed to be no chance of getting them sober before they set the house on fire...
...Died. Rear Admiral William S. Cowles, 76, U. S. N., retired, at Farmington, Conn., where he was born. He served in the navy for 45 years prior to his retirement in 1908, commanded the gunboat, Topeka in the Spanish American War, was naval aide to McKinley, was in command of the Missouri when it had a collision with the Illinois and when thirty-three men were killed in an explosion (he was cleared of responsibility in both cases) and was an official representative at the coronation of George V. He was divorced from his first wife in 1880 and fifteen...
...Rear Admiral Philip Andrews will replace Vice Admiral Andrew T. Long as commander of the United States naval forces in European waters...
There is a courageous paper in the South. It is the Enquirer-Sun of Columbus, Ga. In spite of K. K. K.'s to right and left, in front and rear, it says: " The whole Kukluxklan Kamelia Komedy is so foolish that one no longer wishes to protest against it because it is anti-Negro, anti-Jew and anti-Catholic, but rather because it makes the people of all the South appear idiotic when they continue to accept seriously Klonvocations and Klonciliums, and tolerate the fantastic ravings of men who are fattening on the money of deluded simpletons...