Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will include news of the Patzcuraro project in Mexico which the New England regional organization will aid under UNESCO direction. The project involves group planning for an underdeveloped area. It aims to train local teachers in working on the problem of illiteracy...
Reporters traveling across the country with the Stevenson Campaign train agree on only one thing they like Adlai...
...This morning he said he received a birth notice," said a Boston reporter only with the group Saturday and Sunday. "It was on the birth of a kid named Jimmy and it said 'I was only born yesterday, but I'm for Stevenson." Those who have been with the train for weeks laughed. "He's been saying that since Texas, we're collecting money to buy little Jimmy a razor...
...quickly as possible on election night. In order to detect instantly any significant trends in the voting, CBS has arranged to use Univac, an all-electronic automatic computer known familiarly as the "Giant Brain." Because it is too big (25,000 Ibs.) to be moved to Manhattan, CBS will train a TV camera on the machine at Remington Rand's offices in Philadelphia. This week, and for the rest of the month, a staff of researchers is feeding 1944 and 1948 election results of each state into the Giant Brain. With all this material digested and memorized, the machine...
...before breakfast. But they faced the world stoutly and together-a world which consisted for years of drafty old houses (once the family lived in a tent) and endless peregrinations in search of work (Ma always bought just one railroad ticket, sent her big brood scurrying off through the train to hide in the lavatories...