Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight eight-inch guns of the Australia fired a deafening broadside, the Canberra followed with her main battery. Fountains of white spray rose round the little target-ship, but when the smoke cleared, the Torrens still rode at anchor. Australia's navy tried again and yet again until Rear Admiral E. R. G. R. Evans judged that enough of the Commonwealth's money had been blown away, sent a motor launch bobbing over the waves to sink the Torrens with a prosaic charge of good, reliable dynamite...
...cloak of personal secrecy which has always masked Soviet Dictator Stalin was ripped up one side fortnight ago by United Pressman Eugene Lyons, slit down the other side last week by New York Timesman Walter Duranty, and finally slashed to tatters from the rear by New York Evening Postman H. R. Knickerbocker...
Mother. The Dictator's rear is Tiflis. His mother lives there in two rooms of what was once the palace of Tsar Nicholas' viceroy of Georgia-the land where Stalin was born. Primarily the palace is now occupied by the Soviet government of the transCaucasian Republic, plastered with posters and slogans relating to the Five-Year Plan. Correspondent Knickerbocker was told that Georgian schoolchildren speak of Stalin as "the man who annexed Russia to Georgia...
...Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, addressing the Chicago Geographic Society, revealed that his Antarctic expedition was still financially embarrassed. Said he: "We must get out of debt before I can discuss my plans for the future. The hard times dealt us a serious blow. At present the Antarctic expedition is $110,000 in debt. Our movie is not making anything to speak of." Variety last week reported that the Admiral's lectures are grossing $4,000 to $5,000 nightly; that he will clear some...
...Currituck Sound, N. C. He successfully hatched out 54% of his eggs. Many a game specialist has experimented along the same lines. Bobwhite quail have been bred for ten years by William B. Coleman, in Virginia. Eugene M. Simpson, superintendent of Oregon State Game Farm is now trying to rear grey partridges on a large scale. This week the commission meets in Manhattan to elect another president in Senator Hawes's place. Among founders of the More Game Birds in America foundation are Publisher Thomas Hambley Beck of Collier's Weekly; Col. Arthur Foran, Comptroller of the Port...