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Word: traine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rumors that Lampoon members had turned in the false alarm, Lionel ("The Toy") Train '50, Lampoon president would only say, "Well, if it had to be any building, I'm glad it was the CRIMSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chief 'Poonster Praises False Alarm; Crimson Fails to Burn | 4/15/1949 | See Source »

...months after he broke pelvis, collarbone, ankle and rib in an auto crash, Golfer Ben Hogan was driven to the El Paso railroad station, and wheeled to the train. He managed to walk the length of a Pullman car by himself and settled down for the 16-hour trip back home to Fort Worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: After Due Consideration | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...Queen Elizabeth docked at Southampton last week, 50 suntanned Californians tripped from ship to shore, bound for the London boat train and a fortnight's tour of the British Isles. A wan sun, hidden for days by fog, peeked out at them, just in time to make good the British Travel Association's current slogan: "Spring comes early to Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: The Grand Tour | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...going through 32 costume changes a night at the Folies Bergeres. The grande saison de Paris would offer 150 spectacles, from colored lighting displays of the Versailles fountains to an amateur night for drink-mixers at the Hotel Continental. France was also pleased to announce that even the trains were running on time. One day last week, for the first time since the war, every train in the land departed and arrived on schedule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: The Grand Tour | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...Like other Italians, the pickpockets were getting ready for the tourists. Rome newspapers reported last week that they were brushing up their art at special schools, where artful dodgers of long practice instructed beginners on the finer points of fanning pockets painlessly. The unrationed Irish were plugging low-cost train and motor tours. In Portugal travelers could relax in one of Europe's few unscarred landscapes, and rub shoulders with out-of-season royalty at the gaming tables of Estoril, Lisbon's lush suburb. At Stockholm they could buy a 30-day, $995 "inside Scandinavia" tour, complete with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: The Grand Tour | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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