Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University, the Governor of the state, and the donor of the Houses, upon a dais? Do the students also wish to be elevated to that dais, or do they admit that these people are slightly more important than they? If not, they had better begin at once to rear-range their ideas, because they are out of tune with the rest of mankind. I wonder if the editorialist realizes that in the English institutions after which these beautiful houses are modelled, it is the custom for the dais to be occupied by the men in authority? Or, by any chance...
...coincided with the entrance of President Lowell, who mounted the platform, a lighted candle in either hand. In another moment the lighting problem had been solved and into the once more gleaming dining room entered the associates of the House. Professor Coolidge the guests of honor, and in the rear, the members of the undergraduate committee. Dinner was then resumed, and although once again the lights failed throughout the building, as had been previously announced by Professor Coolidge, he refrained from giving any explanation of the mystery...
...close of the dinner, diners at the high table rose in a body and left the room, while many of the undergraduates stood in the rear of the room, evidently expecting speeches or some other rites to conclude the occasion. Speeches and ceremony of any kind, however, evidently have no part in Professor Coolidge's plans for these gatherings, and so in simple manner the first high table gathering was brought to a conclusion...
Admiral Pratt was a full admiral by virtue of his being U. S. Fleet Com- mander. By virtue of his new, coveted office, he retains that rank. But Admiral Hughes last week kicked himself down a step in naval rating to rear admiral. Last week the Navy Department announced the appointment of a new full admiral to take command of the Fleet: Rear Admiral John Valentine Chase, whilom member of the Navy General Board, who plans to confer over the Treaty Navy with his new chief before hoisting his four-starred flag above the flagship Texas...
...President" Yen proclaimed his resignation, withdrew to Shansi with a loyal army. After him scuttled his whilom "Prime Minister," the recently proud and pompous Wang Ching-wei. Strapping Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, ally of Yen, famed master of "the largest private army in the world," covered the ex-Presidential rear...