Word: reared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University race it was a battle between Penn and Tech all the way with Harvard never quite near enough to make a dangerous bid for first place After the first eighth mile. Penn began to forge ahead with Tech's prow holding on about half a length in the rear. Harvard, a length behind, had dropped its stroke to 34 two points lower than Penn's. A little before the crews came to the bridge Tech started a sprint which carried it ahead of the Quaker crew...
Thompson and Clark, who had come up with Warner, left ahead of the others, travelling on houseback to Lanehow where they came down the Yellow river on a small skin raft to the railhead and a hence by rail to Peking. Starr, Stimson and Warner brought up Lie rear more slowly on carts till they too reached the river and changed to a raft. On the return march five sets of small early Buddhist cave chapels were explored, two of them hitherto unreported. The early sculpture at these sites had been entirely destroyed and the wall paintings had been restored...
...Should subsequent investigation (to be made in all cases) show that the children are not being reared under decent conditions, then the father and mother shall be segregated from each other until such time as they may possess the means to rear their children adequately...
Died "Sergeant Murphy," 16, first U.S. owned horse to win (1923) the British Grand National; at Bogside, Scotland, "destroyed after breaking a rear leg on a turn in the West Scotland Steeplechase. He was mourned by Stephen Sanford Jr., U.S. scion who purchased him for $10,000 and won $50,000, the Grand National Trophy Cup and many another pelf-filled purse...
...these objectors, Rear Admiral Fiske?who has also invented a torpedo-plane, a telescope, a rangefinder, an ammunition hoist, a range indicator, a gun director system, a system for detecting submarines and an electromagnetic system for exploding torpedoes under ships?made answer...