Word: train
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would not be the only match. There are many subjects in the curricula. Cambridge would expect to win the mathematics and the principal events in all sorts of "stinks." Oxford would count upon the Litterae humaniores. But there is no telling. It is very easy for good men to train too fine; and not a few of the best fall to "come off" in competition...
...future alliance with Hupp, Hudson-Essex or Nash. They knew that Alvan Macauley had left for Manhattan (from Detroit), had gone into "secret" conference with motormen. Actually the "secret" conference was the regular meeting of the Automobile Chamber of Commerce. "We will continue alone," said Alvan Macauley and took train for Detroit...
...arriving oarsmen were not spared from practice because of their train journey but were sent out on the Thames together for a mile and a half limbering up jaunt downstream...
...long line of martyrs waiting at the gate comes the Reverend Dr. Fiske of Omaha, Nebraska, and affixes himself to the train without further parley. Mr. Fiske has, like much of the existing world, written a book. The book's title is "Voices of Gold". With the pride of a father in his first-born, and a pardonable wish to instill variety, or even bite, into the Sunday evening service, he has recently filled in the space between the offering and the third hymn with readings from his book...
...special return train from Providence to Boston, run by the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, has been chartered to make the trip on June 26, leaving Providence at 12 o'clock midnight, daylight saving time...