Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 14--A team of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, Mass., was able to train telescopes and cameras for about a minute on the rocket which fired the Red satellite into space...
...Ghengis Khan. I said that Nanook had to organize a cavalry to meet Ghengis Khan's horsemen. His army rounded up a herd of polar bears and harnessed them to carts. Some of the girls were pretty skeptical about this, so I told them how hard it was to train polar bears. 'Once they got going, though,' I said, 'all hell couldn't stop them...
Died. Walter Duranty, 73, bald, wooden-legged (from a 1924 train wreck), Pulitzer Prizewinning (1932) New York Times foreign correspondent (1913-39), novelist (One Life, One Kopeck), autobiographer (I Write as I Please), longtime (1921-34) No. 1 Timesman in Russia and No. 1 Russian apologist in the U.S. (when Stalin doomed some 3,000,000 peasants to death from starvation by withholding grain, Duranty wrote: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs"); of a stomach ailment; in the Orlando, Fla. hospital where he last week married his second wife, Anna Enwright, widow of a Florida judge...
...said President Pusey, the size and scope of the task facing higher education--together with its financial implications. By strengthening Harvard College we hope to catalyze throughout the country a new realization of the necessity for raising faculty salaries and for strengthening in other ways the institutions which must train the future leaders of our country...
...wave and the economic pressures of their own huffing and puffing competitors. But even though the world of commerce chose to bypass the windjammers, there were many, particularly among the hornyhanded sailormen of northern Europe, who cherished the brave tradition they represented, and insisted that only sail could train a sailor...