Word: train
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dawn the fuses with crimped fulminate of mercury caps attached were found on the north side of the railroad right of way. Hence, the location of bombs was not part of a smuggling plot diverted from Agua Prieta to the east, but a plot to bomb the train of Mexican Federals (due between five and six that morning in Naco) who had been interned at Fort Bliss after the Ciudad Juarez fall and recently released and shipped to Xaco under protest of the Governor of Arizona...
...misleading and distorting of public conscience as direct misrepresentation." U. S. newspapers make crime romantic, glamorous. President Hoover suggested that they might "invest with a little more romance and heroism those thousands of our officers who are endeavoring to enforce the law. . . ." He also added, before taking train back to Washington: "I have no criticism to make of the American Press. I admire its independence and courage." ¶ Struggling into his winter overcoat, President Hoover last week went out and inaugurated Washington's baseball season at Griffith Stadium. Calmly he watched the Philadelphia Athletics beat the Washington Senators...
Newshawk Franks went out sleuthing in his car, met a train. His car was hurled through twelve somersaults. His story, telephoned from a hospital, got into his paper, into many another paper...
People have sailed, swum, flown, rowed, fought, argued their way across the English Channel (21 miles). If and when the much-bruited Channel tunnel (TIME, April 8) is built, people will be able to train-ride across or even walk. But only two men have ever pedalled across the Channel. Hydrocyclist Rene Savard,in 1927, crossed in 7 hrs. 13 min. and last week Raoul Vincent, pumping patiently at the pedals that made his paddles go, got across in "record" time...
...first place, daylight saving begins next week and it would prove amusing during an idle hour or so to figure out once more whether one should add that extra hour or subtract it and still catch his train. Having made the computation, he can record the results for use when he next wants to use such information and then if he ever really wants to be sure he can telephone the railroad station...