Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program is designed to teach students the methods and principles of electronic computers at a time when the field is constantly expanding. "Industry, while it knows little about the underlying principles of controls, needs people trained in the field and will hire as many people as we can train as fast as we can train them," Minnick said...
Much of the program will be a venture into untested fields. "In the past, little has been known about the underlying principles of controls," Merrick explained. "But enough is now understood to enable us to train students in the field, although the subjects to be studied in some of the courses may have no texts to go by," he concluded...
...broke the economic shackles which the foreign concessions had fixed on dismembered China. For the first time, Chinese felt themselves a modern nation; there was order and purpose. Magazines flourished, students went abroad in droves to learn modern techniques, and travelers who used to go by boat to avoid train robbers could now take the train from Shanghai to Peking in safety. Road mileage was tripled, the student population doubled, a national currency was established, the practice of farming out tax collection ended...
...group's statistics calculated according to average clockings, show that it takes 33 seconds from the entrance of the kiosk, to buy a token and get on a train...
After 58 seconds the train leaves the station to arrive at Central almost two minutes later. The train stops at Kendall 5 minutes and 11 seconds after the passenger enters the kiosk. From Kendall it takes only 1:44 to get to Charles Street Station, and then only 1:16 to Park Street. After leaving the car it takes the average city-dweller 40 seconds to climb to the street...