Word: trained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proud man, allow his wife or any member of his family to visit him. When told of his parole, the one-time Governor had wept for a few minutes and then, in dim fashion, had begun to gather his possessions. Now he declared to reporters as he boarded a train for Indianapolis: "This is the happiest day of my life. ... I don't know what I'll do yet. . . . Right now I just want to be happy...
...smooth tennis lawns of the Longwood Cricket Club, Brookline, Mass., famous men played doubles for the U. S. championship. Famous William Johnston, San Francisco, stepped off the train out of practice and teamed with Richard Norris Williams. Once they had played doubles together before; to win the Norwood Tournament in England, 1920. Spectators watched them narrowly, since only they could dispute with William T. Tilden Jr., Germantown, Pa., and Francis Hunter, New Rochelle, N. Y., sly shotmakers, the honor of playing doubles for the U. S. against France in the approaching Davis Cup matches. They won early matches easily against...
...America sent a duplicate picture by radiogram to Honolulu. At Honolulu a print was made and sent by express steamer to Osaka (Japan), Batavia (Java), Wellington, (New Zealand), Sydney and Melbourne (Australia). From Melbourne prints of the print of the San Francisco-Honolulu photoradiogram were to be mailed by train...
...upward from their fires and nets to see the huge hummingbird dart eastward overhead. Edward F. Schlee, Detroit oil man, and William S. Brock, onetime air mail pilot, drove the Pride of Detroit toward the glory of circling the world in record time. The previous record made by airplane, train and boat: 28 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes...
Ninety years later, in May 1922, another train pulled out of the Baldwin Works at Eddystone, Pa. It was labeled the "Prosperity Special" and consisted of 20 monster locomotives, each with ten driving wheels as high as a man's head. Smaller locomotives pulled and pushed it across the continent to Los Angeles. This train constituted only a part of one order filled that year by the Baldwin works, a new herd of 50 freight movers for the Southern Pacific R.R. Hitching the monsters together and delivering them all in large groups was a publicity stroke conceived by Samuel...