Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marching" column stretched out for a mile and a half. It was kept in order with the help of radio networks, one relaying messages from Expedition Commander Major John A. Robenson in the vanguard to officers in the rear, another connecting the column with Fort Bliss at El Paso. When the caravan reached Terlingua the horses were unloaded and the cavalry proceeded under their own power 15 mi. to the Mexican border. A significant experiment in army transportation, the expedition indicated that U. S. borders could be protected by distant major posts, thus eliminating the cost of permanent border forts...
...Father's head and stirred the warm air about him with ostrich-plumed flabella. Mace-bearers, torchbearers. Noble Guards and Swiss Guards walked at his side. The crowd cheered. Then 18 cardinals and 6,000 priests and ordinaries fell into line, bearing lighted candles. The Pope in the rear, they marched slowly through the evening shadows and the Bernini colonnade...
...designed to operate on both directions without being turned around and although each car is individually streamlined, very often they operate on trains of two or more cars. Complete streamlining is possible only where the vehicle always moves in the same direction with respect to its front and rear ends...
Married. Nona McAcloo Martin, 19, granddaughter of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo; and Mahlon Kline Jordan, 21, Philadelphia socialite; in Whitemarsh. Pa. Senator McAdoo flew from Washington to give the bride away, arrived 15 minutes late, had to sit in a rear pew while the bride's stepfather, Clayton Platt Jr.. substituted...
...Manhattan, Albert Mailloux and George Beauchamp delivered a truckload of shirts to Dresswell Shirts, Inc. As they waited for the store to open, a coupe drew up behind them, then sped away. Mailloux smelled smoke, ran to the rear of the truck, found a sizzling bomb planted in the shirts. He grabbed it, hurled it to the sidewalk. It landed at the feet of Bystander Bernard Witt, exploded, blew him into the air, broke...