Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayflower Hotel became the political centre of the U. S. Its spacious lobbies were jammed with Senators and Representatives eager for a peep at the next President of the U. S. Up & down its thick-carpeted halls marched a throng of important people ranging from Bernard Mannes Baruch to Rear Admiral Cary Grayson. Through the street crowd of plain citizens Supreme Court Justice Brandeis shouldered his way inside. So did Minnesota's Governor Olson and General William Mitchell, retired Army Air Service critic. In Room No. 776 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was holding court...
...prepared to present a blue Persian kitten as club mascot. William J. Morden, Asiatic big-game hunter and explorer, announced that the aviatrix. in accordance with ancient Inca custom, would anoint the cat's feet with oil to prevent its straying from home. Boomed a voice in the rear: ''Bill's wife says to put some oil on his feet...
...saved some of their meat and with a Cork jammed it against the under side of the table to help out a breakfast the following morning. The food that was not eaten or could not be eaten was shared by a number of pigs, whose sties were near the rear of the dining hall...
...small Pilot "Bill" Lester of American Airways, who is 26 years old but looks 18, takes off in a Fairchild. Hidden in the blackened cockpit behind is old-timer Dean Smith, who flew for Byrd in the Antarctic. Pilot Lester disconnects the radio and instrument-panel light from the rear cockpit, zig-zags the ship every which way for a few miles, pulls it up into a stall, lets it fall off into a spin. At that instant he switches on the instruments, calls through the speaking tube: "All right, mister, take me to Newark...
Work on radio equipment to be used by Rear Admiral Richard. M. Byrd's second Antarctic Expedition, scheduled for next September, has been begun by the Harvard Institute of Geographical Exploration, it was learned yesterday from T. S. MeCaleb, instructor in Field Communication at the Institute. The Institute will furnish specifications for all radio transmitting and receiving equipment to be used on the expedition, and the portable sets for dog team exploration parties will be built in the Harvard laboratories...