Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advocate Universal Military Training as a "character and health builder" is to point a finger of shame at our homes and educational systems. If these are so poor, so ignorant or so depraved that the draft is needed to train young men, then it would seem self-evident that we should spend more money for better schools, more for public health, and work out some educational and character-building program for young parents...
...Santa Fe Railroad began daily service with its sleekest, fastest "gin rummy haven," the Super Chief. The train's new cars have radios and running ice water in every bedroom...
Vanished Hope. Meanwhile, in Palestine, other tragic effects continued. In the hills overlooking the Garden of Gethsemane, Arabs and Jews bombarded each other with mortar and grenades. In an orange grove near Rehovoth, Jews blew up a British train bringing soldiers back from leave in Cairo. In the twisted steel and splintered wood, 28 were found dead, 47 wounded. The terrorist Stern Gang of extremist Zionists boasted that it had blown up the train...
...Dance Director Nick Castle, who runs a school for professional children on the side, heard her improvising on Waitin' for the Train to Come In. He gave her a part in a Christmas revue. Toni stole the show. Later, she appeared in stage shows with Cab Galloway and a broadcast with Eddie Cantor...
...Train fare to away football games is the only kind of aid the Band is seeking. Manager Joseph J. Borgatti, Jr. '45 has asked that these allocations be made an annual item on the University budget...