Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show's new president, who used to be an outstanding contestant himself, cut the running time by starting the jumps higher; opening-night suburbanites could watch U.S. Team Captain William Steinkraus win the nerve-stretching ''Democrat'' Memorial Challenge Trophy* and still catch the midnight train home. Thomas also pepped up the show with a rodeo touch: cowgirls racing quarter horses around a cloverleaf barrel course. Another innovation almost anyone could have anticipated: a class for Shetland ponies. No entry named Macaroni though...
...Morio Yamamoto opened his throttle for a test high-speed run on the New Tokaido Line. Almost imperceptibly, Yamamoto's electric locomotive purred into power, skimmed like an arrow past paddyfields and rolling hills. Smiling with satisfaction, a Japanese National Railways executive announced to invited passengers that the train was moving at its programmed speed of 200 kilometers an hour (124 m.p.h.). "Nothing to it at all," beamed Yamamoto...
There are many arguments against the kind of general education the Redbook proposed. It can be argued that Harvard should accept the role of preparing students for graduate school and should train them as scholars, because any other role would be unrealistic, given the intellectual level of the student body and the demands of an increasingly specialized society...
...Filed a federal suit, charging that the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway conspired to assign Negro "train porters'' to the same work done by white "brakemen" at higher pay-at the same time denying them union membership...
...drinking them under the table). Wilde wrote back from Missouri: "Outside my window about a quarter of a mile to the west there stands a little yellow house, with a green paling, and a crowd of people pulling it all down. It is the house of the great train-robber and murderer, Jesse James, who was shot by his pal last week, and the people are relic-hunters. The Americans are certainly great hero-worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes...