Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country's shrewdest political observers, dropped into the White House last week with a few Midwestern Democratic committeemen for an informal chat. On his way out, Ed Kelly made a little prediction about the man he had just seen: "Unless he gets hit by a freight train, he's going to be around for a long time...
...Drake Relays, their hurdlers ran 2-3-4 behind national champion Harrison Dillard, averaging 14.5 in the highs, 23 at in the lows. They are two and three deep in most of the other events, and as Coach Mikkola commented, "They're not coming east just for the train ride...
...stockings, bore on his right shoulder the five-foot, knob-headed gilded mace which is the House of Commons' symbol of authority. Then, stiff and staring straight ahead, came the Speaker, handsome Colonel Clifton Brown. His grey wig reached to the shoulders of his long black gown, the train of which was carried by a bearer...
...Disclosure of God in History" -sometimes through interpreters, sometimes (as in Lahore) with History's riotous sound effects running him competition. He and equally energetic Mrs. Coffin endured a schedule that sometimes called for three or four lectures and two banquets a day; 36-hour journeys in dirty train coaches; chancy bucket-seat rides in rickety aircraft. On one occasion, engine trouble brought Dr. Coffin's plane down at a tiny Chinese town which had no Western-style accommodations, but did have a local missionary who turned out to be one of Dr. Coffin's old Union...
...session ends, the double-timing Brown instructors who teach it are usually a pale shade of grey. V.C. students, who cannot join fraternities or compete for varsity teams, hit the books hard, with President Henry M. Wriston's warning in their ears: "This is not a Government gravy train...