Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When cannon boomed from Santiago de Cuba in 1898, Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson, temporarily down the coast on his crack, three-funneled flag-cruiser New York, turned her and raced back in time to see the last ship of Cervera's squadron sink, in the second and decisive naval battle of the Spanish War. That cruiser, then five years old, has served ever since, is now the oldest active U. S. fighting ship. In 1912, on the launching of the battleship New York, she was rechristened Saratoga and relegated (though as flagship) to the Asiatic fleet...
...nearby park they stalked a group of wet-nosed children at play. Advancing cautiously from the rear Mr. Takahashi suddenly held his mirror before the chief sniveller's startled face. The boy turned, discovered Crusader Takahashi smiling benignly over his tabard, holding out a paper handkerchief. Hypnotized, the sniveller accepted it, trumpeted dutifully...
Publisher Black reflected pleasantly on the preceding days' events: his entertainment of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt aboard the Sabalo; a flying trip to Saratoga for the races; another flight to Newport to see the twins, boy and girl, just born to his daughter, Mrs. Alfred J. Bolton. On their way home now, his only guest, his cousin Mrs. J. Walter Lord, had already retired. It was 9:30. Soon he would go to his cabin...
...Navy, Marines and Coast Guard determined that while living costs since 1908 had risen 104%, U. S. officers pay had risen only 11%, and junior officers' pay had decreased about 2%. Under the bonus system, a certain lieutenant is now receiving $6,357 a year, $138 more than his rear admiral; a certain Chief Petty Officer (noncommissioned) is receiving more than the commander of his ship...
Editor Ray Long published in Cosmopolitan the letters of Miss Edith Benham, social secretary to President Woodrow Wilson and his second wife, written to her fiance Rear Admiral James M. Helm. Social Secretary Benham reported almost daily to her Admiral the progress of the Paris Peace Conference as she observed it from the Wilson's Paris headquarters, the ornate Bischoffsheim house at 11 Place des Etats Unis...