Word: train
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Latest from Paris is sold by two commercial travelers, both birdwitted. One is male, the other female. They meet on a train where the man in order to have the woman to himself cleans the observation car of passengers by referring to his recent case of the pox. Nothing happens, nothing matters beyond the fact that the salesman is Ralph Forbes, good looking, ineffectual, and the saleswoman is Norma Shearer, beautiful, wasted...
...Wrecker. What a to-do in the offices of the Great Trunk Line! A criminal, a nameless fiend, is, everyone feels almost certain, going to continue his series of express train demolishments by wrecking the night flyer. To the great dismay of the little group waiting around for something to happen, he does just this; then the president of the road, on the point of naming the dastard's name, is shot down by some mysterious hand...
...physical maturity. They reduced that common element of lettuce and liver to a form that was relatively pure as a physical preparation but intricately complex as a chemical compound. They named it Vitamin F and guarded well their research. Immediately upon the public announcement last week, Dr. Evans took train for Manhattan, and a long awaited trip to Europe...
Frank D. Boynton of Ithaca, N. Y., president-elect of the N. E. A. department of superintendence: "President Lowell seems to think that the main function of the American high school is to send its pupils to college. . . . Our objective is not to train a chosen few for higher education, but to prepare all our students for American conditions of life. . . . The, only tests which the colleges use in determining the fitness of a boy are intellectual tests. ... A Leopold or a Loeb could pass them easily...
...There is no use in your trying to train your pupils for leadership. The graduates of our old high schools are out playing golf while the real leaders who never saw the inside of a high school are herding the voters to the polls...