Word: reared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rear Admiral Hilary P. Jones testified in regard to certain earlier testimony by General Mitchell. He said, in regard to the General's declaration that the Philippines would fall an easy prey to air attack, that of course the islands could be taken, but it could not be done by aircraft without a Navy. Two weeks, the time suggested for such a feat, he believed was "a pretty short time." Airplanes, he said, were essential as auxiliaries...
...Angeles carried both Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson and Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, Chief of the Bureau of Naval Aeronautics. The Secretary flew his blue and white flag and received all honors and ceremony customary on a dignified battleship...
First of all, Rear Admiral Phelps, speaking before the Women's Conference on National Defense, declared that "serious differences are brewing with England over shipping policies." This was a bugaboo so preposterous that Secretary Hughes saw fit to deny it promptly. Among his other ideas Admiral Phelps included a strange one, indeed: "These differences can be prevented from developing into a conflict only by a strong navy." Bismarck himself seems to be speaking. Yet the psychologists say that man learns from experience! Perhaps Admiral Phelps has forgotten those days before the war when nations piled up armament...
...making this statements Mr. Wiggam was attempting to show that American intelligence was declining rapidly. "The day laborer," he said, "can get married and begin rearing a family without regard for the future of the children when he is twenty years old. The lawyer, doctor, educator, preacher, and business man cannot afford to marry and have a home before has is thirty. We thus give stupidity a tel-year handicap over intelligence. Civilization makes the world safe for stupidity. If we give the stuped man a better chance to rear children and multiply his kind than we give the intelligent...
...Cleveland, in four small rooms at the rear of the Reformed Seventh Day Adventist Mission, middle aged women and young girls congregated to watch the unrelenting minutes burrow into the future. They wore no lace, no ornaments, not even their wedding rings; they painted not, neither did they powder; for, said one: "The gates of Heaven are not open to the gaudy slaves of fashion...