Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long defended Gag Rule as an honorable mechanism of party government voted 88 to 11 against it. The Democrats, who had long abused it, voted 231 to 69 for it. Once more a House majority went comfortably about its business without fear of a legislative attack from the rear...
...save the weight of the cement we get a better ride, better traction and much more room available in the body of the vehicle. . . . This gives a much better art possibility for appearance than the old-type car. . . . Sweeping lines can be run clear from the front to the rear-no projections, no bumps, smooth contour, and the sleekness of line of a purring kitten...
Since just such a rear-engine car is now in its second year of sleek production by Mercédés, Nazis might well smirk at President Stout's exhortation to the U. S. automotive industry to pull itself together and build likewise. Standardized U. S. cars he found "so alike . . . that a price war has started which eventually must ruin the industry if economic history is right. . . . What is needed at this stage is not so much intellectualism that can design the car, or intelligence that can run the firm, but somebody who is 'smart...
Along with Germans, Czechoslovaks were proud last week that they too have in standard production the rear-engine car of President Stout's production dreams. Made by the great automobile & locomotive firm of Tatra, it sells for about 30,000 koruny...
...Professor William King Gregory of Columbia tracing the evolution of the pelvis from fish to man, beginning with the fact that fish have hip-bones-rudimentary little rods unattached to the backbone but helping to support rear fins. Further improvement of the pelvis enabled amphibians to crawl, later animals to walk on all fours, humans and ortho-grade primates to walk upright. (Once possessors of good hips, whales reversed the process, lost most of the pelvis by taking to the water...