Word: reared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delegation is front-and-centre. Front right (facing the rostrum) is California; front left, Pennsylvania. Behind California will sit a string of western delegations. Behind Maine are the other New England States, then New York. Behind Pennsylvania come Ohio and other Midwesterners. Southerners are relegated to the rear...
Organization Problems. So many other food products companies has Postum Company absorbed recently that President Colby Mitchell Chester Jr. (son of the famed Rear Admiral) has found his greatest problem in integrating the several organizations. To get the correct solution he is not hurrying his staff. That policy Postum directors approve, and they have postponed the increase of Postum's dividend rate. It has been $5 a share (all common, no preferred) since August, 1926. There was one 100% stock dividend and a second is believed imminent...
...thousand excited Germans sat beside Berlin's famed Avis Speedway one day last week, and listened to a lecture on rockets. The lecturer was Fritz von Opel, motor magnate. Beside him stood a little racing car with two unusual accessories. In its rear it had something that looked like an exaggerated exhaust pipe. This, explained Herr von Opel, was a chamber for the explosion of rockets, the car's only means of locomotion. The other feature was a pair of little wings like an airplane's, except that their pitch was inverted. These, said Herr von Opel...
...Smart persons do not confuse Commodore P-e-r-r-y with Rear Admiral Robert Edwin P-e-a-r-y (1856-1920), discoverer of the North Pole (1909) and father of the "Snow Baby," Marie Ahnighito ("Peaked Mountain") Peary, once famed as the Farthest-North-born white infant, later the daughter-in-law of Judge Wendell Philips Stafford, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia...
...pound boats on the Schuylkill River last Saturday, the Crimson oarsmen lagged behind in the wake to fight for secondary position with Penn, Princeton, and Yale. Pulling sluggishly in the final quarter-mile, the Harvard entry took the wash of the three other shells and brought up the rear a length behind the Eli eight...