Word: train
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Station on their annual Christmas trip. The group will be composed of 51 men, including managers, a doctor, and a graduate member who will act in a advisory capacity. The schedule, aside from the regular concerts includes many divertisements designed to fill up, the odd hours intervening between the train and the concert hall...
Rowdyism by Harvard students on a subway train and, later, on the station platform at Harvard square, has besmirched the crimson. Apparently there is need, in the great university at Cambridge for a compulsory course in manners...
Andean Christ. After Santiago, the itinerary called for a special train to Santa Rosa de Los Andes (Chile), whence the narrow gauge Transandine Railway climbs up to burrow through the Cumbre tunnel at an altitude of 10,452 feet. Half a mile higher, on a ridge in the oldtime Cumbre pass, stands "Christ of the Andes," the peace statue which Chile and Argentine cast from their cannon after Edward VII of England arbitrated their last quarrel in 1902. "Peace to all nations" says that statue's pedestal...
...Senor Elias Ayala, presented a request that there be no "repetition of the violation of Paraguayan territory by a Bolivian force." Thereupon the Bolivian Foreign Office replied that "in view of this insolent attitude" on the part of Paraguay, "you (the Paraguayan Minister) must leave this capital on the train which leaves Viachi Station at four p. m." Within a few hours the Paraguayan Government similarly kicked the Bolivian Minister out of Asuncion with the statement that "in the face of such an attitude" as Bolivia's, there was no choice but "to proceed in the same manner...
...miles from the African jungles in nine days, twelve hours. Soon after his eldest son reached his bedside, the King was reported in a bulletin as "slightly better." For the final stretch of rails, from Brindisi, Italy, to Boulogne, France, the Italian Government supplied a special train and officials cooperated to the end that it should cross Europe at an average speed of 35 miles an hour. Though impressive to Italians, Swiss and Frenchmen these record facilities seemed ridiculous in comparison with the fact that in Great Britain the famed "Flying Scotsman" chuffs from London to Edinburg daily...