Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must train yourself to sneer at American cameras and to make vague, rueful references to the Leica that fell overboard. The mention of domestic wines is enough to excuse you, pale-faced, from the supper table, and the hesitation of American girls to accompany you almost immediately to "a little hotel you know" sets your head wagging in good-humored amazement...
...series is entitled, "Great Moments of the Movies." Among the pictures to be shown are "M," "Anna Christie," "Lost Weekend," "All Quiet on the Western Front," and "The Great Train Robbery...
...police think that this could discourage those to whom "Vice is Now Become Alamode," they are mistaken. Their efforts will have no more permanent effect than President Dunsters when, according to Professor Morison, he emptied his horn of gunpowder in the middle of the Yard, laid a train, touched it off with a live coal, and "blew the Devil out of Harvard College...
Horatio Alger stories are now considered corny because they are irrelevant. Their function of training the young for the drive toward goals on the frontier of work has been replaced by the mass-media effort to "train the young for the frontiers of consumption-to tell the difference between Pepsi-Cola and Coca-Cola . . . We may mark the change by citing an old nursery rhyme...
Then the strikers hit on a labor practice strictly in a Japanese tradition: they committed suicide. "I take to my grave the memory of your cruelty," 19-year-old Zengoro Nakamura wrote Natsukawa, and threw herself under a train. Three other Ohmi girls also killed themselves...