Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following opinion by Rear Admiral G.J. Rowcliff, Commander Cruisers, Scouting Force, of the U.S. Fleet, got into the press last week: "Neither nakedness nor underwear are authorized Navy outer uniforms at present. The sun's age and man's antiquity being what they are, sunbathing has been practised for some time in the past without a policy. However, the price of clothing, the progress of medical thermo and radio technique, and the existing inclination of mankind toward nakedness and idleness may require the establishment of a policy. Sunbathing, by its very nature, seems to eliminate clothing, at least...
...remarkable document was in the tradition of Brigadier General William ("Billy") Mitchell, who kicked the complacency out of the air service; of the Marines' General Smedley Butler, Navy's Rear Admiral William Sims, Army's Major General Johnson Hagood, who brought on premature retirement by his reference to "WPA stage money...
...seats were filled, and the Yardlings filled the aisles, main doorway, and main stairway. Some particularly enthusiastic members of the class engaged in dart throwing from the front, while others crowded up the back stairway and attacked the speakers from the rear...
...wheeled Thunderbolt over the measured mile of glistening salt at an average speed of 345 m.p.h., 34 m.p.h. faster than man had ever traveled on earth. Last week, after a fortnight of unfavorable weather, Challenger Cobb had his inning. Sitting in the nose of his tear-shaped, front-and-rear-engined Railton† (only half the weight of Thunderbolt}, with his head accommodated in an aluminum cupola with a speak-easy window, Driver Cobb streaked over the measured mile in a little over ten seconds, averaged 350 m.p.h. (for a north and south run), became the new king...
...bogies, phantasmagoric giants projected by the few candles guttering in the necks of empty liquor bottles. And there was the hero of the occasion, swaying in the midst of admiring passengers and local good fellows. Stodgily and solemnly he repeated his story of discovering a wash-out in the rear of his farm, then trudging through the hurricane to town "in these clothes" (pointing to his town finery), thus saving the express from certainly thundering to its doom...