Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foaming fountains, flanked by assorted foreign pavilions. Massive-pillared Egypt is a heavy splash of deep red; Rumania scintillates with a faqade of rare stone from her rich mines; Austria is a building the whole front of which is a glass serving to frame a gigantic photograph at the rear, so that one seems to look not at a structure but at Alpine heights; and Norway is all beer, fur and skis. Beyond lies Italy, a pavilion where oranges and lemons arrive each day so completely ripe and fresh from the groves, that no sugar is used in either...
Meantime the Congressional delegation had filed by Joe Robinson's bier in the State Capitol, lunched at the Little Rock Country Club where some of them took a dip nude in the pool (the few ladies in the building having been requested not to look out of the rear windows) before attending the burial. That evening the impromptu political caucus returned to its train and started back to Washington where this week a majority leader was to be chosen. One important new delegate was present, Vice President John Nance Garner who had closed his month's vacation...
...Calcutta-Lahore express plowed stolidly through one night last' week on its 1,100-mile journey. In the morning, hundreds of natives jampacked in the first five cars dozed fitfully on for they had had little sleep. In the two rear cars European passengers rode in greater comfort...
...only a few seconds. With a thunder of shattered wood, a shriek of torn steel, the train and seven cars took a head dive over the embankment, settled in a chaotic mess. The first two cars were completely telescoped, buried beneath the two that followed. From the two rear cars, which had stayed miraculously on the rails, leaped frenzied Europeans to behold a scene described by one as "like any battlefield." Relief workers rushing to the spot dragged more than 100 dead and mangled bodies from the wreckage. The government railway earlier gave out that 80 had been killed...
...joined the British regulars under Colonel Bouquet for a finish fight in the Ohio country. Three companies of regulars were left behind to protect frontier homes. When Smith's men came back 18 months later it was to discover that many a home had been raided while the rear guard was wintering snugly in Philadelphia to ease the nerves of unendangered Philadelphians. Among frontier settlers, confidence in British government reached...