Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goat of last week's rain-drenched encounter, dropping back a full length in the first quarter mile of the race. When the '52 shell shot across the finish line with a time of 10:19, the Tiger octet was a full two and a half lengths to the rear...
Died. Burton Jesse Hendrick, 77, scholarly biographer-historian-journalist (McClure's Magazine-see PRESS) and three-time Pulitzer Prizewinner: once for history (The Victory at Sea, 1920 co-authored with Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims), twice for biography (The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, 1922; The Training of an American, 1928); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...also brought out a new model, the Traveler, a combination sedan and station wagon with a list price of $2,088. The rear of the Traveler opens up (see cut) and the back seat folds down on the floor, making a lugeage compartment almost as large as a station wagon's. K-F figured the car would be fine for small businessmen and farmers, who could use it as a truck by day, a family car by night...
What to do? Just go on living, building, and waiting in tranquillity. Conventional protection against old-fashioned disasters like "tornadoes, fires and earthquakes" would do some good. "The sound approach," said Rear Admiral Parsons, "is to add atomic blast and radiation flash to the list of natural and man-made catastrophes which may at some time be encountered ... If we look ahead five or ten years we must consider the possibility of encountering atomic blast. This possibility may for some places be so small that it can be neglected. We should make every effort to add atomic facts of life...
...letter to the New York Times, Miss Farrar took approving note of "such physical attributes as allow this singer to surmount. . . the terrific vocal demands . . ." She added pointedly: "No voice comes to full-bodied glory on a Hollywood diet, nor are lean thighs the safe caryatids upon which to rear the edifice of enduring and beautiful singing...