Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Adelaide Sims, daughter of Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims of the U. S. Navy, retired; and Robert Francis Fiske, member of the personnel department of Harvard University...
...Rear Admiral Newton Alexander...
...usual, with titanium tetrachloride. It is carried in liquid form, in tanks specially installed in the airplane. When the pilot operates a valve, air is forced into the tank by the speed of the plane in flight, the pressure expelling the Ti CL 4 through a nozzle at the rear. On contact with the atmosphere, the liquid is changed to a cloudlike vapor. Under "unusual" atmospheric conditions, it is said, the tetrachloride joins with moisture in the air to form hydroscopic smoke particles containing hydrochloric acid which may damage leather or rubber compositions, bright dyes, cloth fabric other than wool...
...envelope, each performing his first duty of searching a prescribed area for stowaways. Then, with the ship moored in midfield, the first flight guests climb up the little stairway into the control cabin: Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, Assistant Secretary for Aeronautics David Sinton Ingalls, Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, President Paul Weeks Litchfield of Goodyear-Zepplin, his vice president Designer Karl Arnstein, and many another. In all there are 113 persons aboard, more than a dirigible has ever carried...
...fashioned parties. A vaudeville tour afterward did not go to his head. Playing on Broadway, he still wore mackinaw, rubber shoes, woolen shirt. In his own district, where there were lots of fiddlers, he was famed for his snowshoes. His proudest boast was that he equipped Rear-Admiral Robert Edwin Peary for snowshoeing to the North Pole...