Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still stranger, the situation is purely one-sided. Princeton has its Orange Key Society, Dartmouth its Green Key, and so on through the Ivy League schools, to solve just this problem. The Key organizations, partly honorary and partly functional societies, send representatives to meet the teams at the train, to guide them to their hotel or dormitory, and in general to see that they are taken care of throughout the weekend. At some of the colleges, the society provides tickets for any current dance or festivity, and at all of them it makes sure that the visitors can get into...
...Cigar. In Geneva, N.Y., a ten-year-old lad who stopped a New York Central freight train by shooting the fireman with a BB gun admitted to police that he had been in error-he was aiming at the engineer...
...Lily, her 16-year-old illegitimate daughter. Then Putt had to go and get himself killed. Said Molly, the day of the funeral: "Maybe it wasn't his fault, but I ought to have had the sense to pick out a man who could've dodged a train on a track...
Last year after the Princeton game, the college band alighted from its train in New York's Pennsylvania Station and marched up Seventh Avenue playing Dartmouth songs to an appreciate wayside audience. They climaxed the event by tying up traffic in Times Square to the tune of Glory to Dartmouth," says the daily, calling the episode "possibly the best example of what is meant by school spirit...
They prepared 35 basic questions to ask in each country (sample: What Cabinet posts are held by Communists?). Then they set off, by plane and train, to search for the answers...