Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four men entered Pana, Ill. early one morning last week, ate a good breakfast and then drove on to First National Bank. There they forced the janitor who was washing windows to let them in by a rear door. While one robber directed operations with a submachine gun, another made the assistant cashier open the vault. Having packed $27,600 into two suitcases, the robbers fled. Suspected was Desperado John Dillinger...
...Station, he was surprised to hear the stentorian trumpets of the Marine Band playing "Happy Days Are Here Again" and William Woodwin's "The Franklin D. Roosevelt March," to see the smiling faces of 200 eager Representatives and 30 Senators. Hale and bronzed, he came out on the rear platform of his car to the gangway which had been placed for his descent, and grinned at his unruly legislative children. Representative Kenney of New Jersey (sponsor of the bill for a billion dollar lottery for veterans) lifted his arms and led the lawmakers in a cheer. Then heartily enjoying...
...Riding Hood into the closet. He is on the point of breaking down the door when the industrious pig arrives and quickly assembles the equipment called for by the situation-a bag of unpopped corn and a frying pan. He warms the corn and pours it into the rear of the Wolfs baggy trousers. The Wolf, convinced that he is being peppered from the rear by a machine gun, scuttles off. The two frivolous piglets arrive in time to join the celebration at Grandma's cottage. The prudent pig pumps the organ for their dance. Major flaw...
...Langer of North Dakota, they shouted, "We've been robbed." displayed banners reading: "WE HAVE BONDS, BUT NO BREAD." "DILLINGER AND CAPONE ARE AMATEURS." Thousands of spectators jampacked the sidewalks as the three-mile procession rolled through the financial district, police motorcycles chattering in the vanguard. In the rear, street urchins dived after the trampled bonds, tore off the gold seals, stuffed the brightest-colored engravings in their pockets...
...dymaxion, invented by Buckminster Fuller '17 and built by Phillip C. Pearson '18, has the appearance of an airplane without wings: it contains a Ford V-8 engine, and is supported by only three wheels, two in the front and one in the rear. The original dymaxion had a wooden body, and was wrecked in an accident on its maiden trip to Chicago. Its descendant, however, has an all steel body and cannot be smashed in, it weighs 3600 pounds, has a 182 inch wheelbase, and will turn in an 11 foot circle. One of the cars, which sell...