Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surrounding old John Ringling is a hard one to live up to. His ambition and drive helped build the Ringling show up from a family affair with four performers and one wagon to "the greatest show on earth," with 1,200 horses, 2,000 employees, a zoo-car circus train. Ringling's favorite saying was "I've got no use for midgets." He liked big, eye-catching things. He bought thousands of acres of land in Minnesota, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Florida. He built a bank, a hotel and two huge, Italianate palaces in & around Sarasota, speculated in railroads...
...schools were set up in 1870, when the tides of Victorian secularism were running high. The most that the secularists would allow were optional classes, left entirely in the hands of local education boards. As a result, most religious instruction became a matter of indifference. Few teachers bothered to train themselves for it, and few students bothered to take it. As in the U.S., freedom of religion came to mean almost no religion...
...Narrow Margin. Cops & robbers on a train that rattles along at an exciting express clip (TIME...
Lesser Evil. In Youngstown, Ohio, Nurse Gwendolyn Owens, 24, ignored the railroad brakeman's red lantern, drove on until she crashed into a train, later explained: "I didn't want to stop in that neighborhood after dark...
...Graduate School of Education is cooperating with 21 other Eastern Liberal Arts Colleges in its undertaking to train secondary school teachers. Concerned over the disproportionately small number of students who are going into public teaching, educators from these colleges, in conjunction with the Graduate School of Education, have drawn up a plan to increase interest among their students in secondary and elementary teaching. Fellowships for a year's study at the G.S.E. will be available to those who qualify next year when the program will begin...