Word: reared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brazilian Navy, like the Peruvian, is U. S.-trained. Rear-Admiral Noble E. Erwin and other officers of the U. S. naval mission to Brazil were present to meet the Hoovers...
...streets will be cut through the three blocks, parallel with Fifth Avenue, one of them leading to the rear doors and ramps of the Opera. Along these new streets, and through all the rest of the property, Mr. Rockefeller will erect new buildings for old (skyscrapers, hotels, stores, apartments). And the new streets will be developed as the finest and most exclusive shopping district in the world...
...crack passenger train between New Orleans and Chicago. On the midnight run of March 18, 1900, with Mardi Gras guests abroad. Casey Jones saw a crash coming with the rear-end of a freight train near Vaughns, Mississippi. He did all he could to prevent it, pulled on the air-brakes, threw his engine into reverse. Then he yelled to the fireman: "jump if you want to save your neck." But Casey Jones, no jumper, stayed with his locomotive and died instantly in the crash...
...require the very pink of passengerhood. Only the jolliest, most debonair of present-day gallants could fittingly adorn the La Salle-Fisher Laughing Cavalier. Students of the Hals painting have provided it with hood and cowl of Wissahickon green; lower body, fenders and gear of deep maroon; wire wheels, rear deck and body above moulding of Talina brown; roof and rear quarters of tan Burbank silk mohair; mouldings of gold leaf...
...With its tender, it weighs one million pounds and is as long as half a city block. Designed chiefly for work on steep grades, it will haul across the Rockies trains that now creep slowly onward with the aid of two engines in front and a third in the rear. It will go into commission about the first of the year...