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Word: rear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bathroom, she heard a sudden thud, a crash of glass, from the front bedroom where she slept. It sounded like a floor lamp falling over. Mary Jo ran in, saw a suitcase on the floor, under a broken window. Something was dreadfully wrong. She ran to the rear bedroom to wake her brother. Just as he stepped out of bed, the whole house came apart in a blasting crash. Mary Jo and Mrs. Miller were only slightly bruised; Brother J. H. was hit on the head by a falling timber. Outside, in the Texas summer night, a car drove away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Classroom Casanova | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Aboard the Exeter as she limped off toward the British base of Port Stanley* in the Falkland Islands, 1,000 miles to the south, were 61 dead men, and 23 wounded. Commodore Harwood was notified by radio that he had been knighted and promoted to Rear Admiral. Ajax and Achilles got off comparatively lightly: between them only eleven dead and eight wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Pocket into Pocket | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Salt Lake City, Joseph Schoelling, riding on his bicycle, crashed into the rear of a parked car, looped up and over, landed right side up, astride his bicycle on the car roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oddest | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Doell walked round to the back of the house, hastily turned his back on a Jewish cemetery which faces the rear door, and rapped again. The door key was on the outside, the door unlocked. Mr. Doell went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Case of the Bedroom Slippers | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...reach its destination in Germany after a flight of some nine miles. "The angry 'pang, pang, pang' of French 755 joined in the chorus. Their shells followed a short trajectory and made a sharper, hissing sound above us." German shells came back over, bursting far in the rear, each making a wide glow in the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: In the Vosges | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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