Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prepared. Next year remedial sections will be made optional instead of compulsory for poor students. Harvard cannot help receiving both good and bad freshman writers every year and laziness is difficult to remedy in any course. With further text and course revision, however, General EducationA might be able to train poor and undeveloped writers without boring them...
...Perelman from a novel by Jules Verne, the story relates the adventures of a very correct 19th century English gentleman who, on a wager, sets out to circle the globe in eighty days. So he packs up a couple of shirts and his valet and proceeds by train, sailing ship, balloon, elephant, windpropelled railroad car, and various other exotic means of transportation. Somewhere in India a love interest enters in the shape of a native--though properly British-educated--princess whom the travelers rescue as she is about to be sacrificed on her late husband's funeral pyre. There...
...years, divorce in Britain was considered not only in poor taste but political suicide. Adultery was the only legal ground, and novelists made almost a standard episode out of the husband's shamefaced trip to the seaside resort of Brighton accompanied by a hired "corespondent." There was the train trip down trailed by two hired detectives who carefully avoided speaking to him; the registration in the cold hotel as "Mr. and Mrs."; the embarrassed moments in the double bed beside the girl in a nightgown, he reading a newspaper, she munching sweets as they waited for the housemaid...
...Swimming Union is doing its best to aggravate the problem. The British Empire Games are a year away and the Rome Olympics are four years in the future, but this week the A.S.U. is already passing the hat among Aussie fans for $112,000 with which to recruit and train faster and flashier teams...
...outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. His father was an ailing French barrister, his mother the daughter of a Birmingham solicitor. Father Belloc kept his family with him right up to the brink of the siege of Paris, then bundled self and brood off to Britain "by the last train for Dieppe.'' Almost the first view that met young Hilaire's eyes was Southampton harbor filled with German ships dressed with flags in honor of the Prussian victory. His father died soon afterwards, so his family settled in England. Little Hilaire grew up bilingual, binational...