Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revenuer known to his friends as "Can," came to Tellico Plains with his second bride. Widowed in middle age, Can had written to seven matrimonial agencies, had wooed and won a mail-order bride from Kentucky, and planned to bring her to Tellico Plains on the Sunday morning ,train. At the time, Ray was running a shoeshine stand in the town square where Can and his bride would surely pass in the surrey on the way from the station. Ray was ordered to take that day off because Can didn't want his bride to know she had married...
When the great, round shadow of the moon sweeps across the earth next June from Nebraska to India, its speed will be known accurately from astronomical data. It will be like a railroad train traveling at known speed past stations whose distances apart are not known as accurately. By pinpointing the train's time of arrival at each station, the distances between stations can be computed...
...William F. Gurney, 12, of West Palm Beach. Fla., saw a girl and boy trying to pick up some books that the girl had dropped on a railroad track. Gurney rushed onto the track, pushed the boy and girl off, then jumped clear himself-just as a train roared past...
Foundation, the "train" is one of several that are proceeding by different routes to the West Coast. At each large city, trains will stop, collect more boxes and cars. By journey's end at San Francisco, the foundation hopes to have 600 carloads of goods. For the schools of Korea, the most important part of the cargo is the boxes marked especially for them-each filled by the schools...
...University has never offered plush scholarships for debaters, and no one has ever suggested imitating the colleges that tear apart the local train station when welcoming home a successful team. Carried to an extreme, though, in the forensic world, excessive neglect has left the Varsity Debating Council with neither an instructor nor sufficient funds for its activities...