Word: reared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just a month ago the above optimistic information was considered so authentic that it formed the nub of a report to the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee cabled by Rear Admiral David F. Sellers, commanding the U. S. special service squadron in Nicaragua. At the same time a prominent Marine field commander in Nicaragua, Major Archibald Young, was quoted as saying that the greatest difficulty encountered by his men was from wood ticks & fleas...
Last week the validity of the Rear Admiral's official report and the Major's off-hand statement was rudely challenged when the forces of General Augusto Calderon Sandino killed five more U. S. Marines, thus bringing the total of Marine deaths for the past year...
More interesting was the case of Rear Admiral Brumby, on whose behalf it was contended that he had not been technically made a defendant in the trial and that the equivocal findings did not justify censuring him. While the subject of this discussion steamed out of Balboa, Panama, on his flagship, the cruiser Camden, to oversee Control Force maneuvers at the Perlas Islands last week, observers studied the court of inquiry's alleged paradox to see why it should have puzzled the Navy Department...
...that the Court had said, in clumsy, Naval fashion, was that whereas experts had been on hand with good plans and execution, their virtue was not shared by their commander, Rear Admiral Brumby. By good staff work rather than good commanding had that little been done which was done. When the busy pro-Brumbians professed incomprehension of the court's sentence: "He had not the familiarity with the essential details of construction of submarines and the knowledge of rescue vessels, and the knowledge of the actual work being carried on by his subordinates necessary to direct intelligently the important...
...clock the line was a mile long. An hour later the gates closed, since the stadium was full, and the crowd outside began to fight. A hundred men were hurt. Women who fainted were passed back over the heads of the mob to the ambulance men working in the rear. Inside, Arsenal beat Aston Villa 4 to 1. The players were unhurt...