Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poor fourth with 29,000, finally settled on Candidate Tobin. That many another anti-Curley Bostonian had done likewise appeared when young Maurice Tobin rolled up 105,212 votes to old Jim Curley's 80,376, left Candidates Nichols and Foley trailing surprisingly far to the rear...
...explosive shells two miles. Cartridges come in clips of five, one in each clip painted with phosphorus to burn as a tracer. Beside them are two .30 calibre guns and on each side of the centre fuselage two .50 calibre (1½ in.) guns sweep the skies from the rear...
...bolt into a 70-ft. section of the keel of the North Carolina, first battleship the U. S. has built since the West Virginia was commissioned in 1923. North Carolina's proud Lieutenant Governor Wilkins P. Horton shot the second rivet and the Yard's new commandant, Rear Admiral Clark H. Woodward, dispatched the third. Before newsreel cameramen had picked up their equipment to depart, a battery of professional riveters was at work. When the North Carolina is completed some time in 1941, along with its sister ship the Washington, whose keel will be laid at Philadelphia Navy...
...violently shadow-boxing fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 1), was postponed for at least ten days because of an act of God. Unexpected rains in the high Pyrenees flooded the Gállego and Ebro Rivers 20 ft. above normal, flooded trenches on both sides for several miles to their rear, turned the whole district southeast of Saragossa into a temporary lake. Inconclusive fighting continued in the Madrid suburbs...
...Land. Britain's Captain George Edward Thomas Eyston has a conveyance. It is 36 ft. long, weighs 14,000 lb., has six wheels (two pairs forward tandem, two double rear wheels), boasts a tail fin sporting the Union Jack, is called Thunderbolt and is described by courtesy as an automobile. Last week he took this gadget out on Utah's Bonneville salt flats, warmed up its 24-cylinder, 4,000-h.p. Rolls-Royce twin engines, and made a try at the 301 m.p.h. land speed record established by Sir Malcolm Campbell two years...