Word: reared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crew stroked by P. H. Watts '31 was victor by a margin of six feet over the second boat to finish, stroked by D. B. Lawrence '31. About two and a half lengths behind Lawrence's crew was that of S. W. Swaim '32. One length to the rear was the crew of R. W. Pearson '31. This race was the final outdoor one for the year, and after a layoff, crew candidates will report for indoor practice, which is held on the machines and in the tank of Newell boat-house. No times of the race were given...
Flayed. Silent and alone in his rear-row seat last week sat Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut while Democrats on the Senate floor excoriated his employment of Charles L. Eyanson, agent of the Connecticut Manufacturers' Association, as his tariff tutor (TIME, Oct. 7). The lobby-hunting committee brought in a statement of fact, in the Bingham-Eyanson case, without major recommendations. Declared Chairman Caraway of the Lobby Committee: "This transaction was beneath the dignity of the Senate and would tend to shake the confidence of the American people in the integrity of legislation." Democratic Senator Dill of Washington suggested...
Drums and cymbals clash a silence. A shrill tweet from the bandmaster and out blares the pomp of "Hail to the Chief." In through the giant curved rolling door at the end of the building marches Rear-Admiral William Adger Moffett, chief of the Navy's bureau of aeronautics. With him are President Litchfield, Designer Arnstein, Commander Jerome Clark Hunsaker, who Drobably will head the Pacific Zeppelin Transport Co. (see col. 3). They mount a platform above the arc of the master ring. President Litchfield explains the ceremonies to spectators and microphones. Dr. Arnstein hands Rear-Admiral Moffett...
...Cheapest car in the show: the British "Baby" Austin, selling for $631. Fords cost British buyers $826. ¶ Most original car in the show: the Trojan, with engine astern. ¶ Staggering innovation: the hoar and royally honored firms of Rolls-Royce and Sunbeam have at last abandoned the cantilever rear spring, adopted the semi-elliptic type used on nearly all other cars...
...Eipper next looked at the pale faery eyes of a Bengal tigress, fixed on distance like those of some Eastern image. He watched the pelican gulp fish. He sat down and let four orang-outang infants clamber over him and played with them as an equal. From the rear he looked at the young elephants- "like forlorn village children in the Sunday pants of a corpulent parent." Only the chimpanzees disturbed him. Said he: "If I see them riding . . . the animal atmosphere is dispelled for me for ever...