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Word: train (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...depth in a particular department, but argues that an examination of all the possible approaches within a wide area to a specific problem, and a consequent understanding of the relations between these different approaches, outweighs the loss. If it is admitted that the objects of formal education are to train the intellectual powers and to further the cultural development, then the second seems definitely superior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Tuesday, 4 p.m. Peremptorily Hitler commanded President Emil Hácha to come to Berlin from Prague for a conference. Accompanied by his daughter and Foreign Minister Frantisek Chvalkovsky, Dr. Hácha boarded a special train. Week's best example of how fast the Hitler machine was turning over: Dr. Hácha's train was one hour late in Berlin because of traffic congestion caused by troop trains already on their way to Bohemia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Time Table | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...Adolf Hitler had snatched a few minutes' sleep on a train from Berlin to the border, had then driven in swirling snow and over icy roads through Sudeten villages and Czech towns to Prague. There he had an emperor's triumph exactly eight hours after the arrival of his vanguard, exactly 25 hours after having summoned Dr. Hacha to Berlin, exactly one year and a day to the hour after his triumphal entry into Vienna after Anschluss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Time Table | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...meet the demand for Spring skiing, the Boston and Maine Railroad is sending a Sun-Tan Snow Train up to North Conway, New Hampshire, where good skiing with 30 inches of granular snow has been reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IDEAL SKI CONDITIONS TO LURE SLIDE-BOARD ARTISTS | 3/24/1939 | See Source »

...Denver, when Miles Brunswig asked Lucille Stute to marry him, she refused. He went home to Haigler, Neb., put a note in his home-town paper announcing his marriage to another girl. Lucille Stute took a train for Haigler to see what was what, found there was no other girl, married Miles Brunswig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Amnesia | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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