Word: train
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high speed, and the muscles of his right hand had frozen. He would rest a minute before putting the finishing touches on his essay. He took a hasty glance at his watch. Ten minutes of twelve. Why, in an hour and ten minutes he'd be boarding a train at South Station to carry him to the City and to this January's journey...
...hanging around the bus depot, developed a vast interest in things mechanical. Mechanics made him think of America. So he let the elder Fung know and his journey to the U. S. was arranged. Hounded by reporters from the time he docked in Vancouver until he stepped off a train in Manhattan, Fung Kwok-keung, unable to speak a word of English, threw himself weeping into his father's arms...
...cobra-shaped ribbon stretching along the Nile from the broad delta at Alexandria to the narrow rocky cataracts of the Sudan border. Along that green cobra live 16,000,000 people, of whom 2,000,000 last week took advantage of fare reductions to journey to Cairo by train, steamer, felucca, autobus, camel and donkey. They went to celebrate the wedding of Farouk, their 18-year-old king, to Farida, meaning "unique," his 17-year-old Queen...
Meanwhile, hurrying from Richmond, Que. by automobile in the vain hope of finding their 12-year-old son alive, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Gendron were struck by an express train, killed...
Five years ago printers on Seattle's three big daily newspapers suddenly went on strike, then found the management had anticipated them. The publishers had recruited strikebreakers by auto, train and plane, quartered them elegantly in downtown hotels including Seattle's swank Olympic Hotel. The three papers did not shut down...