Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Round Trip. At McPherson, Kans., R. G. Hickman drove his new Oldsmobile across the railroad tracks and was hit by an eastbound train; an hour later, trying to get off the tracks, he was nicked by the westbound...
Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh left the baby Prince Charles at home and went off to judge floats in a student carnival. As winner they picked one depicting Britain's first steam railway train. The float's name: "Our Charlie...
Among the best is a series of drawings from official documents of the 29th-34th Congresses, by unidentified artists: scenes of camps and deserts, with the exquisite finish and the unearthliness of Dali's early work-a train of mules vanishing, single file, into the haze of the desert, ridden by grave, top-hatted emigrants; a mirage of tall minareted cities, floating on the horizon...
Prayers & Poisoned Water. Forty-Niners (first published in 1931) is the work of the late Professor Archer Hulbert of Colorado College, who gathered the materials for it while mapping the great trails across continental U.S. Hulbert imagined a "typical" wagon train-16 wagons, with four mules to each wagon and three spares, 125 Ibs. of flour for each man, as well as 50 Ibs. of ham, 50 Ibs. of bacon, 30 Ibs. of sugar, 6 Ibs. of coffee. He tells what the emigrants talked about, what songs they sang, their feasts and prayer meetings, the condition of the road...
That was last month. When Sunshine closed, they put me on a train and sent me up here. The day we got to Lincoln there were six inches of snow on the ground. Anybody who would open a New England track this early would enter his grandmother in a claiming race...