Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varsity soccer players who took the 10 a.m. train to New York yesterday are a dejected lot. They've been mowed down three times in a row by the members of the Little Three. In those games the Crimson scored only one goal (against Williams) and had precious few close shots. The team's star player, center forward Chris Ohiri, isn't getting any leg room. He tallied that solo goal against Williams, but otherwise his permanent escort of two or three defensemen is holding him to ineffectual attempts...
...rent several thousand U.S. servicemen and 22 ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet-all for next to nothing. On top of that, he hit the British for 1,000 paratroopers and the French for 2,000 regulars-at the height of the crisis in Algeria. When Zanuck needed a train to blow up, he got one. To transport his troops he assembled a large fleet of Jeeps, tanks and halftracks, plus an impressive personal navy of assorted landing craft. Suddenly Darryl the Great, as his minions know him, was the ninth strongest military power in the world. Zanuck himself modestly...
Unfortunately, this volunteer spirit is fast becoming anachronistic in today's colleges. More and more students are using their time away from the classrooms and libraries to learn business techniques by managing student enterprises. From the idea that activities should train students in money making techniques against the day they become career capitalists it is only a short step to assume that, after all, you might as well make the training realistic and add the profit motive as well. This trend is not limited to Harvard but, along with increasing professionalism in other areas, is becoming a primary force...
...action. Newley is as amiable as he is indefatigable, and by musical's end one has been through so much with his Mr. Littlechap that show and showgoer are knit in intimacy, the kind of factitious friendship that springs up between people who have shared a train wreck, or a bombing raid, or certain opening nights on Broadway...
...newsstands in all 13 of the Far Western states, including Alaska and Hawaii. But not all the Times's mail subscribers in the West got their paper on issue date. In the state of Washington and other distant points, as well as in cities reachable only by train, copies arrived at least 24 hours late...