Word: reared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...craft on an inspection tour, and with 45 companions waved goodby as the Chantier slipped out of dock. Going down the bay, a sleek yacht escorted the Chantier with her owner, Vincent Astor, aboard, and other Byrd-backers, including John D. Rockefeller Jr., Edsel Ford, F. Trubee Davison, Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett. Tromso, Norway...
...granite mountains, but the books in which words and thoughts, are written will weary a man's hand and tear his pocket. "Condense what you write," this age has said; "compress it, synchronize it, cut it down." For borne time such reflections as these have animated the mind of Rear Admiral Bradley Allen Fiske, U. S. N., retired. Recently they have had fruit in an invention which Admiral Fiske last week revealed to an amazed public...
...person. The press has noted of late that there has been some laxity in this respect. But last week Senator Watson was asking a question of Senator Fess. Senator Watson's desk is in the front row, third from the centre aisle. Senator Fess' desk is in the fourth (rear) row, eighth from the aisle (nearly directly behind Mr. Watson's because of the semicircular arrangement of the desks). Mr. Watson turned to Mr. Fess, thereby turning his back on the Vice President...
Macroscopically (to the naked eye) the whole brain is divided crosswise into two unequal, grossly wrinkled parts. The rear and lower part is the cerebellum, the chief duty of which is to regulate the automatic reflexes and movements, such as walking. The upper and fore part is the cerebrum, where thinking is done. It is by far the larger...
...Died. Rear Admiral Richard ("Fighting Dick") Wainwright, 76, in the Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C., of heart failure. He was executive officer of the U. S. S. Maine when she was mined in Havana harbor by Spain. When the Spanish commandant ordered his men to strike the Maine's flag, he roared words long remembered in the Navy: "If a Spaniard touches the flag that flies over that wreck, there'll be another wreck in Havana harbor...