Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moved from Auslitz to Mauthausen to Evensee by coal train as the Russians drove dangerously close to each camp...
...ward off unknowing handshakers, was discussing the impracticality of the President's House, as a home. "It was built by President Lowell whose idea of something grand was that spiral staircase over there. It's fine for allowing ladies to sweep down in a full skirt and a train, but it seems as if the staircase came first and the house as an after-thought." Someone asked her if she had occasion to sweep down with a train much, and she laughed and said not much. "Of course, this place is practical when you are entertaining the Prime Minister...
...authorized a fare increase of over 12 per cent for the New Haven Railroad yesterday, but students planning to take a train to the Yale game will not be affected. The New Haven road will not put the fare rise into effect until late next week...
Blitzstein is also a clever musical impersonator: at home in a great variety of styles, he turns out spirited polkas, convincing Negro jazz, grandiose arias, lilting quartets. Moreover, in Regina the music constitutes the actual train ride, not just (as in musicomedy) the stops along the line...
...thousand artisans and working girls enrolled the first year for the Union's free courses, e.g., mathematics, chemistry, mechanical philosophy, theoretical and practical mechanics, drawing, vocal music. Cooper established weekly lectures in social philosophy, set up a public library and reading room, and a school of design to train "respectable females" for suitable jobs. To establish and endow Cooper Union, its founder had given...