Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese, however, are by turns unbelievably bold and unbelievably ingenious in the ways of sabotaging the would be conqueror. They assassinate puppet officials. Throughout 150,000 square miles of territory in the rear of the Japanese Army they have organized "self-defense" governments. Some 75,000,000 people, almost as many as lived in pre-Munich Germany, help the Cooperative Committees and the Mobilization Committee of these governments. Boys between 14 and 16 years of age act as a special messenger service; farmers cooperate by cutting ditches and felling trees across roads to impede Japanese troop movements...
Living up to its reputation, the Eliot crew swept the course in 7:15.3 with the Rabbit eight following close behind in 7:22.3. Lowell had a time of 7:25.8 and the Adams eight placed in the rear in 7:48. The river was so rough by the second heat that the times were not indicative of the abilities of the crews...
...with other visiting ships was open to the public. He strutted the deck, confidently introduced himself to a real lieutenant, promptly met more naval officers than even he had dreamed of. The real lieutenant noted the bogus buttons, the stripes a little too high on his sleeve, a real Rear Admiral and a real Commander decided he was no spy, whisked him off the ship, plopped him into a city jail. Next day, instead of sending John Husted to jail for impersonating an officer, they condemned him to return to his wife and to the laughter...
After a short interval the blonde spoke up from the rear, "Oh, thank you! I didn't want you to think we're so ignorant we didn't, know what we were looking at." Thereupon the limousine disappeared down Massachusetts Avenue, leaving Grout entirely bewildered...
...Mahan U.S.N.* is the first full-dress biography of a godly, pike-backed salty sailor who in his lifetime (1840-1914) did more than any other to shape the modern navies of the world. In his 40 years of active service, Alfred Mahan never rose above Captain, became a Rear Admiral only when he retired. A contemptuous superior called him a "pen-and-ink sailor," and put caged canaries near his cabin to drown out the scratching of the Mahan pen. Today his biographer, Captain William Dilworth Puleston, U.S.N., retired, and most Navy men agree that his pen was mightier...