Word: rears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...counted on commanding the Bay of Biscay from the first. When this region failed to join the Whites, the entire Mola-Franco plan for a quick southward thrust over the mountains to take Madrid was held up, since to attempt it would have been to risk attack from the rear. Thus this week there was a sense in which not only Premier Largo Caballero but also Generalissimo Francisco Franco had "just begun to fight"' -with approximately 100,000 Spaniards already killed...
...Thurs.--Headquarters, Stoughton 11. Joint Field Day with 1913 and 1914. Luncheon at Gallatin and Mellon Halls at 1.00 P. M. Sports on athletic field rear of Business School 2-6.30 P. M. Dinner at Gallatin and Mellon Halls at 6.30 P. M. Fri.--Headquarters, Stoughton...
...What is your opinion of President Roosevelt?" boomed a voice from the rear of the room...
...Manhattan, reaching the retirement age of 70 Negro Matthew Alexander Henson quit his clerkship at the Customs House. An unsung U. S. hero, Henson made eight trips to the Arctic with the late Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary. On April 6, 1909 he and Explorer Peary fell asleep after warming their frozen feet on each other's stomachs, woke to find they had slumbered over the North Pole. Elated, Negro Henson led three Eskimos in three whooping cheers while Explorer Peary planted the U. S. flag. Reflected he: "That was the happiest day of my life." Lincoln...
Many a person living along the New York Central's right-of-way between New York and Chicago received a surprise last week as the Twentieth Century Limited rushed by. Coupled on at the rear were two slate-gray, streamlined cars, one of them relatively normal in appearance, the other definitely strange, with little square windows on two levels like the gunports of a frigate. One car was named Progress, the other Advance...