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Word: train (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other ways. Concentration in Engineering Sciences is excellent preparation for architectural school and many be very valuable for men going into mining and into business, particularly the production and factory management ends. Many companies seek college men with a broad education which includes some engineering, since they wish to train their own men in specialized fields...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fields of Concentration | 6/3/1938 | See Source »

Maxwell Anderson's "Star Wagon" is a shuttle-train in time, allowing its drivers to ignore the usual chronological conventions and to travel in any direction and at any speed in the fourth dimension as well as in the other three. Joining J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, and a number of others in this favorite form of fantasy, Mr. Anderson goes in for character analysis and nostalgic reminiscence in the field of Victorian sweetness and propriety...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 5/31/1938 | See Source »

...that point President Cárdenas increased the number of Federal troops in Potosí to 10,000, sent a squadron of observation planes ahead and himself boarded the million-dollar Presidential special "Olive Train" to investigate matters at first hand in the city of San Luis Potosí. There he publicly accused the Bull of Potosí of playing ball with the foreign oil companies, and announced the Government was ordering him to disband his private army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Cedillo Squeeze | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

Bold, and in British eyes scandalous, were Augustus John's first decades as a painter. While he was supposed to be teaching at Liverpool University in 1904 he disappeared for weeks at a time on camping trips with gypsies. He once left a train at Marseille and traveled all the way back into Spain to paint a girl he had seen from the train window. The satyrlike old Bohemian, John Bidlake, in Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point was immediately accepted in Bloomsbury as a fictionalization of Augustus John, minus the real artist's wild whiskers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ex-R. A. | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...life became a matter of missed trains, hurried meals, bad hotels. Sometimes Chautauqua people went a little batty under the strain of missing trains; one lecturer rushed on the platform, spent the time for his lecture telling the audience how hard it had been for him to get there, announced that he had only ten minutes to make his train, and dashed away. But good-natured provincial audiences seemed to sleep just as contentedly through that sort of performance as any other. Although Gay MacLaren summons up a vanished area of U. S. cultural life in Morally We Roll Along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tent Culture | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

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