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...first race, Hoppin, who is now rear commodore of the Sailing Club, finished within seven minutes of the leading, Middle boat after covering the triangular course...
...intruder pounded on the locked front door for several minutes, then entered through a rear basement door by breaking a pane and opening it from within. He went at once to the third floor, opening and slamming every door. Mrs. Heddy Schunscher, the Holmes Housemother, rang the "wake up" bell, and the invader directed traffic on the third floor as the girls crowded to the stairways...
...jump has uses that are vitally important in military communication, where construction of short-range relay stations is impossible or impractical. For example the long-jump method could be used across the water gaps and wilderness stretches of arctic Canada, where it would make sense to relay to a rear headquarters the pictures picked up by the far-flung radar outposts. There have been hints that a part of this system is already installed...
More than two months before Eisenhower made his decision. Defense officials had studied the domestic jeweled-watch industry and reported: "No special nor preferential treatment for the industry is necessary ... It is apparent that manufacturers outside the jeweled-watch industry ... are capable of producing the mechanical time fuses and rear fitting safety devices" needed for mobilization...
...Chiang alienated many a patriotic student and intellectual when he turned the Japanese invasion over to the League of Nations and prepared to turn his armies on the Communists instead of the Japanese. "If China ventures to fight the Japanese," he said, "the Communists will attack from the rear and chaos will quickly overtake the whole country...