Word: train
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...root or a hollow might trip him. Gradually he became more & more excited when he was in groups of other horses, used to lunge and try to race. Once, when Miss Getzendaner gave the first signal at a ditch, he jumped it instead. She decided then to try to train him to jump...
Last week they sent to 1,000 public-school superintendents throughout the U.S. a report, Occupational Adjustment. They proposed that public schools adopt a three-point program to: 1) guide, 2) train, 3) place students in the right jobs. First step, said the superintendents, is to make up-to-date, realistic studies of occupations. In Denver, for example, the schools surveyed the baking industry, found what kinds of workers were employed, how many were likely to be needed, even what nationalities were preferred by employers...
While the major U. S. railroads were last week pleading to Franklin Roosevelt's Fact-Finding Commission that they cannot continue in business without enforcing a 15% wage cut, directors of a little U. S. railroad which has not operated a train or sold a ticket in 89 years met in Adrian, Mich, to pay a $24,000 dividend...
Cornell arrived in Boston by train yesterday morning at 6:30 o'clock. Busses took them directly to the Belmont Country Club where they stayed last night. In the afternoon they went to Soldiers Field for a joint practice with the Harvard squad...
...than fifteen years he was the largest stockholder. Then, financially secure, he turned to public affairs and became trustee of the infantile State Agricultural College just founded at Ovid, N. Y. He nourished the little school with $300,000 and moved it to Ithaca. Alike in appearance to Arthur Train's venerable Ephraim Tutt, of Saturday Evening Post stories fame, Ezra's tall, spare figure, set off with frock coat and shiny stovepipe hat, was a familiar sight on the campus. His checks and gifts were also familiar--and welcome...