Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...High has said, the people are waiting for a return to the pulpit of the man who will give them a few kicks ... but the theological schools don't train them that way any more. . . . ROBERT L. WENDT
...austere rabbi (who had no children) had taken Josef to task: "You must know home for a Jew is Palestine. That is something to be struggled for ... to pave the way for the children of Israel." Now, as he prepared to board the Strasbourg train to tell his wife that Rebecca and Israel were not coming, Josef had his answer. From one of the steaming, sweating shipholds, they had finally sent him a message: "We will meet again in Palestine or never...
...Train Trouble. Of course the Russians, though soothed by the fact that all of Finland's wartime anti-Russian leaders are in jail, or otherwise out of action, can still be annoying. Recently the Finns asked Moscow to let them run five trains a day in each direction across the Porkkala Peninsula (leased to Russia for 50 years as a naval base), which would cut three hours from the time required by the roundabout route to the north. Moscow agreed-if the trains were sealed, if they could be inspected by Red officials on entering and leaving the leased...
...week a smiling U.S. consul looked over Bill Dickman's completed papers, handed him his visa and wished him luck. Bill sold his car for $900. Christine Dickman's father & mother, who were going along too, sold their house. Then all of them boarded a Great Northern train for Oak Grove...
...chose to read his own newspaper on the way to work, the average bus or train rider could find plenty of reason to think that the U.S. economy was in an ominously nervous state. But if he looked out the window, he could hardly fail to see some reassuring signs. The men who manage and man the nation's factories are not contemplating an early shutdown...