Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dockyard and saw that his sword lying on the judges' table had its point toward him in token of guilt. He was retired on half pay and dismissed from his ship as responsible for the strange collision in mid-ocean between the huge battle cruisers Hood and Renown. Rear Admiral Sidney Robert Bailey, in command of the maneuvers, and Captain Francis T. B. Tower of the Hood, also court martialed, were acquitted (TIME, March...
...silver plate was presented yesterday to Professor George G. Wilson, professor of International Law and for 33 years a lecturer on international law at the Naval War College at Newport, R. I., by his fellow officers as a taken of their esteem. The presentation was made by Rear Admiral Kalbfue, president of the War College...
...Along a blocked-off concrete boulevard in the outskirts of Los Angeles raced two motorcycle policemen, followed by an Auburn speedster with a streamlined windshield fastened to the rear. Close behind was a bearded man on a bicycle, his tremendous legs pumping like pistons. Zipping along in the vacuum of the Auburn's wake, the bearded bicyclist hit 75, 80, 85 m. p. h. The motorcycle officers dropped out at 85. Auburn and bicyclist shot over the finish line at 90 m. p. h., were doing 100 m. p. h. before they slowed down. An A. A. A. official...
...Maintenance Department spent the day looking for a worthy derrick to lift former Kaiser Wilhelm's statue back on the pedestal so that is can continue its silent exertions. Success, however, refused to rear its happy head...
...audience was on its feet, cheering, clapping, stamping. A professor of mathematics put two fingers in his mouth, whistled. From the rear came a rebel yell. Not for minutes did the audience quiet down sufficiently to thunder through a resolution asking Senator Nye's Munitions Investigation Committee to dig into the Hearst Press...