Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Auto Reflex. In Toledo, Mrs. Margaret Cook's car blew a tire at a railroad crossing, careened down the tracks, struck a signal switch, threw a red block against an approaching freight train...
...Holy Cross monks' lives are by no means all retreat and seclusion. An early rule of the order was "designed to train every man for what he can do best" and to make him ready for "any sum mons." Best-known summons was the one which called Father Sill to found Kent School in an old farmhouse on Connecti cut's Housatonic River in 1906. There, under the Order's supervision, in one of the best of New England's preparatory schools, young boys, rich and poor, do their own housework, pay what they can afford...
When traveling by train on postal business, he wrote on a portable desk with a lamp (almost the whole of Bar Chester Towers was so written). En route to Egypt, to conclude a Postal Treaty with the Egyptian Government, he wrote his way across the Bay of Biscay, pausing between paragraphs to rush to the rail and vomit...
Thomas Jefferson felt that education's prime responsibility was to discover the gifted student and train him for leadership in his special field (the versatile sage of Monticello never dreamed that specialization in stenography would one day seem more desirable than Sanskrit). Andrew Jackson's philosophy, on the contrary, clearly calls for education to concentrate on raising the level of the mass...
...advantages. Said he: "I had to convince the whole town that I didn't have anything bad.... I figured that if everyone was so scared at first at home, why I'd get a wide berth any time I wanted it. It sure was crowded on the train coming back and I started to get hot and boy, did I begin to itch! So I just rolled up my sleeves and showed my splotches. ... In two minutes I had four seats all to myself...