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Word: reared (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a score of sharpshooting police officers, armed with shotguns and revolvers surrounded an apartment building on Chicago's West Side. Some went on the roof while others climbed three flights of rickety stairs to a rear apartment. There they cut the wire out of a screen door, stepped into a room, found a sheepish little fellow of 25 with round pink cheeks, black hair, innocent hazel eyes. He was pulling on a pair of socks. It was Willie Doody. Tamely he surrendered, said he was "relieved" the chase was over, blamed "bad company" for his troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Badly Wanted' | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Nominee Pollard, of the ninth generation of Virginia Pollards, is a quiet, meditative man of 58. His eyes twinkle, his lips smile with scholastic humor. At Williamsburg he dwells in a middle-class wooden house in the faculty group, tends a flower garden in the rear, forgets to answer the supper bell. He served his State one term as Attorney-General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Prof. v. Prof. | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...Died. Rear Admiral Charles Fremont Pond, retired, 73, of Berkeley, Cal.; in Berkeley. He selected the site of the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...persons appreciative of the arts. Among the membership of 2000 are David S. Jordan, Lieutenant-General Hunter Liggett, John Masefield, Edwin Markham, E. H. Sothern, William Howard Taft, David Warfield, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Ignace Paderewski. Honorary members include Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden: Sir Hubert Brand. Rear Admiral, British Navy; Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University. On the Russian River, near Monte Rio, is located Bohemian Grove, where Bohemians gather each summer. On the August Saturday night nearest the full moon they give a play. The 1929 play, A Guest of Robin Hood, performed last week with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Revived Rails | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...Forts Hancock and Tilden and was finally repulsed, but only after lower Manhattan, the bridges across the East River, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, great ammunition dumps at the Jersey City railheads had been laid in ruins. The invading fleet in this Army-Navy war game was commanded by Rear Admiral William Carey Cole, U. S. N. Aged 61, slender, handsome, rather English in manner, he led down from a Rhode Island base two battleships, three cruisers, three destroyer divisions, aircraft equipment- theoretically a full-fledged battle fleet. His mission was to bottle up U. S. fighting ships in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Admiral v. General | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

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