Word: rears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the three-quarter mile course in the Basin both of which were dominated by the Freshmen. In the initial race the first Freshman outrowed the first Varsity and led them across the line by more than half a length while the second Varsity boat was bringing up the rear...
...evening last week, two men walked into the barroom of the Palace Chop House & Tavern, around the corner from Newark's Robert Treat Hotel. They ordered the bartender to lie down on the floor, keep his mouth shut. Passing down a narrow hall, the pair came to a rear dining room where three other men were seated around a table under an orange light. The two intruders jerked out revolvers, began to blaze away. The door of an adjoining toilet inched open. The gunmen sent one shot through it, turned, ran. The man in the toilet staggered out, made...
...Massacre (TIME, Feb. 25. 1929). Lying on the sidewalk they found Abraham Landau, Flegenheimer henchman, where he had collapsed after a futile attempt to pink the two assassins. Just inside, Bernard Rosenkrantz, Flegen-heimer's chauffeur, sprawled in a pool of blood oozing from six wounds. In the rear room, which smelled like a shooting gallery, they found a roly-poly little man with wide, blue eyes. He was Otto Biederman, gambler and underworld clown whom Damon Runyon frequently put into his stories under the name of "Regret." Biederman's face was a red smear of holes...
...launches a "White"' force of midshipmen swept up the Severn to rout "Blue" defenders in a re-enactment of the capture of Veracruz. In the afternoon Navy's football team beat University of Virginia's, 26-to-7. In the evening the Academy's superintendent, Rear Admiral David Foote Sellers, addressed by radio the entire U. S. Fleet. The day ended with The Star-Spangled Banner and many a proud salute to the Navy's glorious past...
...56th Cavalry Brigade (Texas National Guard), longtime administrator of martial law in Texas; of a heart ailment; in Austin. Because of a political feud with Governor James V. Allred ("The first thing I'll do is bust 'General Jake' to a buck private in the rear ranks'"). Wolters retired last year just before Allred was inaugurated...