Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Look's" article has soured Skinner or journalistic coverage of his experiments "Roddy came to me with a dog, asked me to train it to do a few tricks, which would be photographed, and promised to treat the experiment in a dignified manner...
...Yugoslavs tried to flee to Paris via the Orient Express. Carrying bread, jugs of water, and pills to stifle coughing, they sealed themselves in the metal battery boxes slung under the cars of the once-famed luxury train, but were caught by frontier guards near Trieste. The government charged that the fugitives were members of a subversive, anti-Tito movement, but in court last week the defendants denied it. Said one, a 21-year-old blonde: she wanted to go to Paris because she was in love with a student who always traveled the battery-box route. Said another...
During her four-week U.S. visit, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands threaded her way through the niceties of diplomatic protocol and the hazards of civil welcoming committees with unaffected good humor. (In Detroit, after the mayor had stepped on her train for the third time, she was heard to murmur: "My God, not again!") Before leaving for Canada, she topped her tour with a visit to some of the kings & queens of Hollywood, where photographers caught her getting the leading-lady treatment from Old Star Spencer Tracy and Producer Dore Schary...
...lack of proximity to a man's college, many of the girls feel they might as will save their lipstick and good clothes for the weekends. Sarah Lawrence is a four-year, five-day-a-week college With New York only 60 cents and 30 minutes away by train, and New Haven and Princeton within a stone's throw from there, Sarah Lawrencians realize that if Mohammed won't come to the mountain, the mountain must come to Mohammed. And so, come Friday's metamorphosis, hordes of students don skirts and heels and migrate for their weekends entertainment...
...Small Sentence. By January 1950, when the school was ready to open, parents of eleven children were paying a tuition fee of $20 a month. They hired a 23-year-old dramatics student, aptly named Patricia Aid, and volunteered to help train their children in the things most youngsters take for granted: how to color inside a square, cut a line with scissors, manage buttons, speak a few basic sentences...