Word: train
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Column three, page nine, you state: ". . . Among other contestants were: Mrs. Hoover, Ambassador Fletcher, John R. Mott, of Montclair, N. J., Commander Augustin Beauregard and Captain C. R. Train of the Utah...
When the speech was over the Marine Band, never more appropriately, struck up "Hail to the Chief." The President said "Goodbye" to Mr. Coolidge, who edged off to catch his train home. A great many people followed Mr. Coolidge, but many more remained to offer moist hands to the President and first lady before they could enter their open automobile for the drive back to the White House...
...zealous work of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce and the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, newspapers now give no more emphasis to air accidents than to motor or train accidents. And seldom do they mention the name of the plane and motor in the crash. The idea of this censorship is to avoid scaring prospective airplane owners and riders, to protect the public's air-consciousness from unnecessary jars...
...Berlin, the Raab-Katzenstein airplane makers hitched a motorless glider to the tail of a regular plane. To the tail of that glider they hitched a second glider. This "train"-the air equivalent of a motor truck with tandem trailers-taxied across the field and managed to take off, the plane tugging, the gliders lunging after. Soon the "train" straightened out in smooth flight and without difficulty attained an altitude...
Jumpiness and severity toward Roman Catholics was again last week the mood of President Emilio Fortes Gil of Mexico, who mortally hates and fears Pope Pius XI, because he thinks that the locomotive and two cars of his Presidential train were dynamited by Roman Catholics (TIME...