Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Efforts of the famous driver to park his short-wheelbase car parallel to curb provided amusement. Thrice he made the attempt, once missing the proper angle altogether, second time clashing bumpers with car in rear and third time climbing the curb. Provoked, he backed the rear wheels up to the curb, left front protrude into line of traffic...
...Queen passed the afternoon shopping in West 57th Street, accompanied and counseled by Mrs. Reid. The? King, attended by the Physician in Ordinary, Rear Admiral Thavara Chayant, was pleased to consult Dr. John M. Wheeler in his office at No. 30 West 59th Street...
...placed to hide the important library clock from view. See the space where the great apse painting is to go. (At the present time the painting has not yet been transferred from preliminary drawings, but the work is unofficially believed to represent two nude figures, both viewed from the rear-one, a woman, flying off to the left, and the other, a horse, flying off to the right. The conception is of course in keeping with the general library scheme.) Turn about and gaze at the triforium gallery above the vast nave; scan the splendid cler-estory windows, heavy with...
Frequently, after Government troops have marched through what seems to be a peaceful village, it opens fire on their rear...
...owner of an apartment house in The Bronx last week wrote to the Department of Sanitation complaining of "conditions that exist on the side and rear of my house. ... It is ... a body of water commonly known as a swamp." He said that in the swamp subsisted "a large school of frogs. . . . The sound they make . . . is the most annoying thing I have ever heard. The few remaining tenants . . . threatened to move unless something is done about...