Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these three alone were not the cornerstone of the works relief business: Secretary Wallace and Madam Secretary Perkins, Frank Walker and Harry Hopkins, Rear Admiral Christian J. Peoples (director of procurement) all had places in Mr. Ickes' Allotment Board. Thus the circles interlocked. Titles and assignments obviously did not show which of the New Dealers would turn the works relief wheels...
Each compartment has its own radio, mirror, table, washstand with hot & cold running water. At the rear of the coach is a men's lavatory and women's lounge with lavatory, dressing table, mirror, settee. Passengers prepare for bed in perfect privacy, standing up. On duty at all times is a porter. The powerplant, a 6-cyl. Hall-Scott, is at the rear as in most modern buses, is operated by the driver with the aid of compressed-air power-boosters...
...field events the Varsity was almost matched by Tech, Harvard taking 19 points to M.I.T.'s 18. Boston College. Northeastern, and Boston University brought up the rear. The Harvard Freshmen, however, amassed a total of 58 1-2 points to the 11 1-2 each of B.U. and Northeastern...
...night last week a shiny, blue school bus rolled through Rockville, Md., 16 miles north of Washington. Snugly inside the bus lolled boys and girls of the senior science class of Williamsport, Md. High School, returning from a chemistry demonstration at College Park. Most of them were in the rear. In front their teacher sat beside Driver Percy Line. The pupils were singing school songs so loudly that the driver could not hear well, and outside it was raining so hard that he could not see well. The bus started to lumber across a Baltimore & Ohio rail-road crossing, equipped...
...steel-splintering crash, almost beneath his window, brought Rev. Charles R. O'Hara bounding from his bed. By the time he reached the window, the express, Washington-bound from St. Louis, had ground past with the rear half of the Williamsport school bus still clinging to the engine cowcatcher. Father O'Hara and another priest, his house guest, hurried into the rain. On the front lawn a girl lay unconscious. Two students were impaled on the cowcatcher, others strewn for 200 yards along the track. Bent on saving what Catholic souls might be among them, the two priests...