Word: train
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...first U.S. colleges were founded by churches to train preachers and propagate particular denominations, but higher scholarship and declining sectarianism have more and more moved colleges to treat religion as a subject for study, like languages or history. Puritan-founded Yale, for example, which once banned even Episcopalians, now has a wide-ranging program of religious studies. Symbolic of the times, Yale last week announced a new chair for Roman Catholic studies-the first such permanent professorship at any non-sectarian U.S. university...
Just what Hardy really thought of Emma nobody knows. His letters to her, here published for the first time, are brisk, brief, clear, and concerned with those few topics Hardy could discuss with his wife without getting into an argument-the weather, wedding receptions and funerals, train schedules and cats (Emma kept a houseful). Most of the letters were written from London, where Hardy went periodically on literary business, and addressed to Emma at the country home Hardy had built in Dorsetshire...
...tone is unfailingly pedestrian. When he misses his appointed train, Hardy dutifully writes to explain his absence, as on Oct. 12, 1892: "I have attended Tennyson's funeral-and find I cannot get back very well tonight-so I will wait till tomorrow-returning about the usual time-though possibly by the Salisbury train, about twenty minutes later than the 6:13. George Meredith was there-also Henry James, Huxley, etc." When Hardy becomes more solicitous, it is almost always to forestall a visit by his wife: "Though I should like to see you in London I feel...
...coverage of the train of events that began in Dallas, the television industry fulfilled what was widely regarded as its finest and most responsible role. Not until the Tuesday after the assassination did the three major TV networks return to normal programing, having devoted some 200 uninterrupted hours to the running story. Even by the most conservative estimate, the cost was impressive-and irretrievable: $4,000,000 each for CBS and NBC, about...
...decades of nightclub and record performances earned up to $150,000 a year (best-known number: What a Difference a Day Makes), and a title from her fans as "Queen of the Blues"; of unknown causes, while watching television with her seventh husband, Detroit Lions' Halfback Dick ("Night Train") Lane: in Detroit...