Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fifteen women who wanted to be barbers, some of whom asked whether the company would train them...
There is also the question of whether Council members (elected under a system which--as Sandler pointed out elsewhere in his report--prohibits the election of large numbers of experienced men and fails to train the attention of students on issues which the Council must consider) could survive the intellectual strain of studying, and arguing over the many complicated problems that the Faculty committees must decide upon...
...Graduate School of Education will continue to train elementary school teachers and will instruct secondary school teachers in cooperation with the Harvard and Radcliffe Schools of Arts and Sciences...
...that pulse through electronic apparatus are extremely small, but when they are amplified or relayed by a conventional vacuum tube, its filament consumes a full watt. It is the same, says Dr. Ralph Bown, vice president in charge of research at Bell Laboratories, as "sending a twelve-car freight train, locomotive and all, to carry a pound of butter." A transistor gets along with a millionth of a watt, not enough in most cases to make it faintly warm. The Bell men take a bit of blotting paper, chew it for a while, and wrap it moist around...
Artist Lowry grew up in & around Manchester, but he was 28 before it occurred to him to paint it. He was a landscape man and portraitist, with strong academic tastes. Then one day he missed a train in a grimy Manchester suburb, and his life's work hit him in the eye. Says Lowry: "It was a wet afternoon, and I climbed up to the street feeling very disgruntled. I looked across . . . and saw an industrial scene. I detested it. That...