Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...railroads, once fearsomely modern, were pleasantly passe. The automobile had crowded out the train as an everyday means of transportation, though people found that owning a car brought headaches as well as freedom, not to mention flat tires. Some of them (never very many) wondered if this kind of progress was really an improvement...
...reaffirm what we take to have been the original idea and intent of the Ph.D.; namely, to train men to do advanced work of an original nature, without either maiming them spiritually or assuming that they are Methuselahs. Such training should obviously include a wide grasp of what is already known--we ought not, however, to require all knowledge--and it should equally include strict introduction to methods and tools...
...popular President Eisenhower into the state. But Forbes has relied greatly on Ike's popularity in traditionally Republican New Jersey. He has told Negro audiences that a vote for Republican candidates is "the only way you can tell the President he did right" in Little Rock. And a long train of Republican national figures, from Vice-President Nixon and three cabinet members down to a group of campaign strategists, has entered the state on Forbes's behalf. If Forbes wins, and most experts feel the race will be very close, it will be due to this national support...
...dynamic process that Ludwig Erhard has set in train by liberating his country's economy is still forcing basic changes. Last week in Paris Erhard threw his powerful support behind the plan to set up a free-trade area comprising eleven European nations (notably Britain) besides the Common Market's six. Always, to Europe's Socialists and faint of heart, he preaches his doctrine: "The most successful means for the achievement and retention of prosperity is competition. Only by competition can an economy expand to serve all people, especially in their capacity as consumers, and dissolve...
...bulge-eyed gulp in the muzzle of a Luger pointed at him is an exaggeration of all fears of death, and so very ludicrous and excrutiatingly funny. Humor in humorless situations, as Greenstreet waddles at top speed through the Metro to escape a gunman, and then safely aboard a train doffs his hat to the killer, keep the story moving at high speed, always fascinating...