Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ROTC units enjoy the position they hold at the College only to train undergraduates as competent officers in the armed forces. The College adequately provides for the rest of the Undergraduate's education both in the classroom and on the playing field. But now the Army, the Navvy and the Air Corps units have organized basketball teams to play against the Houses and have entered an area where they do not belong...
Wisconsin's Republican Senator Alexander Wiley said last October that the Senate should investigate the Office of Alien Property's "super gravy train" for friends of the Truman Administration. He asked for details on fees paid by the ten largest firms under its jurisdiction. Last week Wiley got a partial report. It covered the biggest alien company held by the Government, the Nazi-controlled General Aniline and Film Corp., and its sales-distribution organization, General Dyestuff Corp. Interesting item: Louis Johnson (Harry Truman's campaign fund raiser in 1948, Defense Secretary...
...Look," said a U.N. correspondent, pointing from the window of a press train in Korea one day last week, "here comes our domesticated Communist." Out of a jeep, wearing a trim Eisenhower jacket, climbed burly Jakov Levi, 30, foreign editor of Belgrade's Borba, and first Red newsman accredited to the U.N. forces...
Almost all non-residents commute because of financial reasons, and most of them (80 percent) would not commute if they didn't have to. Their college careers are closely limited by tight train schedules, and the necessity for being home in time for meals. Many of them have afternoon jobs, many more scholarships and must keep up high grades. All these limit their College contacts--consequently most of them don't dress like Harvard men, talk like Harvard men, or act like Harvard men. Whether this is good or bad is not pertinent; it does definitely set the commuter...
Then they discover a dead ringer for Smoky in a simple, clean-living cowpoke named Stretch Barnes. The hucksters frantically try to train him how to behave before the camera and in Hollywood society. Despite his gift for social errors, e.g., hailing Clark Gable jovially as "Sam," Cowpoke Barnes successfully fools the sponsor and the kiddies. But just as the double seems thoroughly entrenched, Agent White dredges the real Smoky out of a Cuban ginmill and rushes him back to Hollywood for rehabilitation...