Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the time bald, myopic, barrel-chested, spindly-legged Pnin wrestles mirthfully with his fate even though he loses most of the falls. Bound for a lecture date, he blithely takes the wrong train after having painstakingly consulted an out-of-date timetable. Bent on being a sports-minded pal to a schoolboy visitor, he remarks chummily that the first description of tennis in Russian literature "is found in Anna Karenina, Tolstoy's novel, and is related to year 1875." Whenever Pnin stops talking, Novelist Nabokov steps in with waspish, high-spirited asides on U.S. higher education, culture...
Chew-Chew. In Fresno, Calif., when the San Joaquin Daylight train arrived 18 minutes late, Southern Pacific officials blamed "unforeseen operating difficulties" for the delay-Engineer William J. Franey had sneezed, blown his upper dentures out the cab window, stopped the train to hunt for them...
...hundred graduate American and foreign students are now enrolled, and 200 second and third year Law students are participating in the program, which offers 22 courses and seminars. The International Legal Studies program is designed to train American students in the legal aspects of international transactions and relations, to train foreign students and to undertake research in the field...
...Europe-bound tourists, worried over reports of gas rationing and of train schedules dislocated by the Suez crisis, American Express had a reassuring word. Barring any drastic new international flare-up, Western European travel conditions will be just about the same as in 1956. After checking in with the governments of 18 countries, American Express
...little out of hand. The hero (Rock Hudson) is Colonel Dean Hess, an Ohio parson (Disciples of Christ) who in real life flew 62 missions as a fighter pilot in World War II, then rejoined the Air Force when the Korean war broke out, and was ticketed to train the new-fledged ROK air force. The colonel found that his soldier's duty still left him enough time to satisfy his Christian conscience-by founding a home for war orphans and setting up an airlift that carried about a thousand of them...