Word: rears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Died. Rear Admiral Frederic Robert Harris, U.S. Navy (ret.), 74, onetime Navy dock chief, World War II designer of the world's largest floating drydocks, which followed the Pacific fleet and made repairs possible in combat areas; in Man-lattan...
Last week, Dr. Richard Sweet opened 61-month-old Sandy's chest, tied off the front half of the aortic ring and cut it out. The arterial blood will pass through the rear half, which is expected to grow. On the danger list for 48 hours, Sandy was in an oxygen tent, breathing more soundly and soundlessly than ever before in her short life...
...keep them gawking, Leonidoff can pull such stunts as having an orchestra pit full of musicians swallowed up by the floor, to reappear a few moments later high at the rear of the stage. Lowered by elevator, the pit simply moves through the basement under its own power and gets on one of the three elevators that make up the sectional stage. (The stage revolves, too, elevators...
...trap was sprung by hard-riding horsemen of Ma Pufang, the Moslem boss of China's Northwest. First, retreating Hu Tsung-nan made a stand some 75 miles from Sian. Then, swooping from the mountains in the Communist rear, Ma's cavalry, about 20,000 strong and led by Ma's 29-year-old son, Major General Ma Chi-yuan, took the Reds by surprise, cut them up, forced them into ragged retreat. Last week, Ma's cavalry were still carrying on the fight against four Communist armies in the vicinity of Sian. For awhile...
...regard to the geographical distribution of Harvard's living alumni, the Directory found that 23,962 come from Massachusetts and 14,838 from New York. Following are California, Pennsylvania in that order, with Wyoming and Nevada bringing up the rear with only 58 and 67 alumni, respectively...