Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policeman who hurried up, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd explained: "I stepped in to see the Navy didn't take a licking...
Raincoats and umbrellas were provided against just such an emergency, which was not unanticipated. Rear Admiral Burrage, Commandant of the Norfolk Naval District (and with the members of his staff, each a subscriber to TIME) had detailed Warren Owens, a Coxswain in the Navy, as orderly to the President to be on hand with the raincoats and umbrellas if necessity arose. While it is true that almost all the Pilgrims were pretty well soaked, the President and Mrs. Hoover, through timely preparedness, suffered little...
...throat. They wrestled about. The pistol fired wildly. "Pete! Pete!" called the stranger and up from the basement came "Pete" to join the tussle. Dr. Leiva was given a hard pate-pounding with a revolver butt. Blood blinded him. He dropped to the floor. The burglars escaped out a rear entrance...
...sidled into the outfitting business after twice trying to reach the North Pole-with the Baldwin-Ziegler (1901-02) and the Ziegler (1903-05) expeditions. He accompanied Roosevelt through Brazil in 1913-14. Explorer Wilkins found Outfitter Fiala sitting back of a glass partition at the store's rear. The proprietor was not busy. He rarely is these days. The exploring business is at low ebb. And that is strange. Heretofore during business depressions idling executives and fortune seekers have packed off to far wildernesses. But not this year. They visit Mr. Fiala, gossip wistfully a while, then...
Fire. A big Curtiss Condor of Eastern Air Transport, New York-bound from Richmond with 18 passengers, was 20 min. past Baltimore when smoke began rolling through the cabin. A poorly insulated heater pipe in a rear compartment had set the fuselage afire. Hostess Elizabeth Westwood (all E. A. T. planes carry young and personable women as hostesses) circulated among the passengers, assuring them there was no grave danger, while Co-Pilot G. J. McDonald fought the flames with fire extinguishers. Pilot E. C. Kondat raced to an emergency landing at Fort Hoyle. Md., sideslipping the plane to blow...