Word: train
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provides a living for the greatest single group, with 80 members of the class practicing it. Finance comes next with 78, teaching 59, manufacturing and medicine 55 each, morcantile business 50, engineering 87, advertising 20. The ministry, which Harvard was founded to train, has been chosen by only seven members...
...spectacle of a petty Arab nation, formerly a subject people, ruling over their oldtime Turkish masters was too much. He protested to France and the League. Twice he moved his troops to the border to "protect" his Sanjak children, once he held a military powwow on a border-bound train. Only his cautious prime minister, deaf, stubborn Ismet Inonii, persuaded him from ordering his soldiers to fire...
...Japanese bombers over Canton where in a series of raids they killed 1,000 persons, wounded 1,500, destroyed the Wongsha Railroad Station, and demolished an entire train in an effort to disrupt China's major munitions route...
While Cárdenas headquarters announced that the capture of Cedillo was a matter of only days, it was still evident that the Boss was capable of making plenty of trouble for the hard-pressed Government. The "Sunshine Special" train carrying tourists between Laredo, Texas and Mexico City was derailed by Cedillo's men, and tourist offices were forced to admit that the country was "disturbed." In once-prosperous San Luis Potosí State, business was at a standstill...
...sculpture but an unsurpassed gift for making a powerful, rhythmic composition of many sculptured figures. In his Wedding the strong male figure of the Mississippi and the aloof female Missouri, mounted on swooping fishes, will approach each other in the centre of Aloe Plaza. Behind each lollops a flowing train of antic naiads and tough river gods. To Detroit last week to see the final, full-size models of these Rivers, journeyed St. Louis' seven-man Art Commission...