Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commuter train to Groton offers the same barren, monotonous trip every evening. But a couple of times each week, an argument in one of the cars provides diversion for those sitting nearby. One of the debaters is a critic of the University, carping about the Corporation's stand on ex-Communists on the faculty. His opponent is William Bentinck-Smith who, in varying capacities, has had ample opportunities to defend Harvard...
...plan was for the hikers to take a train to the canal terminus in Cumberland, Md. and walk from there to Washington, D.C. Two days and 43 miles after they left Cumberland, Bookman and fellow walkers arrived at the Woodmont Rod & Gun Club, where they were to spend the night and where a TIME courier was waiting to take Bookman's copy to the nearest telegraph office. This done, Bookman relaxed and followed a home-remedy suggestion to ease aching muscles: he drank a tumbler of heavy saltwater solution. The next night, by the time he had bedded down...
...Year Career. Those who graduate are soon tempted to leave the hospitals that trained them. Industry pays better, and now employs 13,000 nurses (as against 3,000 ten years ago), but trains none. State and VA hospitals take thousands more. Many go to work in doctors' orifices. "They're draining the ranks and not putting any back," complains an administrator. "If they'd leave us alone, I'm sure we could turn out enough nurses to run our hospitals." Clearly, "they" will not leave the hospitals alone, and the only solution is to train more...
Sidetracked. In Cleveland, suing for divorce, Olga Textoris, 25, said that her husband Edward, 27, refused to let her buy a $30 winter coat, next day bought himself some $35 worth of attachments for his electric train...
...Moslems (no Hindu will do this work because of religious scruples) stuffed the monkeys into bamboo cages and carried them on shoulder poles into Lucknow. The train hauled them 260 miles to New Delhi. There, 1,000 specimens carefully chosen for health and size (4 to 8 Ibs. apiece) were collected. Then a four-engine transport flew them, with a full-time attendant to feed and water them three times a day, the 4,000 miles to London. Next, another plane and another attendant took them 3,000 miles to New York's Idlewild Airport and trucks carried them...