Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kelsey Will Train Here...
...Taft's hippopotamoid heave in 1910 opened a game in which the late Walter ("Big Train") Johnson pitched a one-hit, 3-0 victory over Philadelphia...
Like so many other distinguished men, Edison attributed his success to a physical defect. At the age of twelve, he was "lifted by the ears" into a train, and began to get deaf. Growing deafness soon drove him away from conversation and into the libraries which made a deeply read man of him. While normal hearers tussled with life's "general uproar," Edison came to love the state of "insulation" which enabled him to "think out my problems" in peace. And freedom from "meaningless sounds" steadily directed his ears to certain minutiae of sound that he could hear very...
Advice to Wooers. Edison couldn't hear the roaring of a train, but when two women who were traveling in it exchanged whispered secrets, he heard every word. He was deaf to the shrillest birdsong-unless it came over his particular amplifying system, the phonograph. He could hear the sharp dots & dashes of the telegraph transmitter, but he couldn't hear a word over Mr. Bell's primitive new telephone-until he took it in hand and helped make a more efficient instrument...
Also fined was Britain's bearded Philosopher C. E. M. Joad, who had twice failed to appear in court to answer a charge of having ridden on a train without paying his fare (from Waterloo to Salisbury, 83½ miles). In London, he was finally found guilty and soaked a maximum 40 shillings ($8), plus court costs of 25 guineas...