Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bros.' activities. The night they finished their work Luckman asked them to dinner at his home. His wife cooked the dinner because, Luckman explained, "you just can't keep a maid these days with three small boys in the house." On his way home next day by train, Hagy got hungry, bought an indigent hamburger, went to bed with food poisoning...
...Nominal Sum. The Western powers were busy on their own side of the line. Britain announced that it had undertaken ("for a nominal sum," said one Briton) to equip and help train a new French Air Force. The U.S., pressing for economic unity in Germany, suspended reparations shipments from its zone. The British did not immediately follow suit, but the betting was that ten war plants (including part of the Krupp works at Essen), ready to be shipped to Russia, would not be moved...
What Is Beauty. The Hindu dancer ShanKar would not board a train unless he was well supplied with movie fan magazines. Hurok learned to handle all such oddities of temperament-all but Isadora Duncan's. Once in Boston's Symphony Hall, Isadora's husband, an enthusiastic Communist, waved a red flag from a dressing room window, made a speech to the crowd below. While she danced, Isadora's dislike of her Brahmin audience got the best of her. She stopped, pointed indignantly at the Greek statues against the wall, shouted to the audience: "They are false...
That time none got away from Campo 35. But there was another time at another place. After Italy surrendered, the Nazis moved Allied P.W.s by the carload into Germany. There at last Millar had his chance. With a friend, he made a break from a railroad train near Munich. They had laid careful plans: a roll of marks, suitable clothing, a nearby underground contact. At night the train guards were sleepy. The prisoners went into the lava-tory of the third-class coach, closed the door, forced the window and climbed out. "At intervals telegraph poles whisked past our noses...
...climax to the University's drive came on May 24, when the Fort Devens deal was announced. By renting the land and reconverting existing structures built by the Army, it was hoped that upwards of 800 families could comfortably be taken care of at this so-called Harvard colony. Train service to and from the Devens-Ayer area was reported to be excellent, and arrangements to increase the service were made should the burden of student commuters prove too heavy. The availability of shopping centers, hospitals, and recreation facilities were all cited as advantages to this, the University's most...