Word: trained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indefatigable, resolute, Dr. Eckener, a jolly soul when times are brisk, set out for Madrid. It is said that he traveled third class as far as the Spanish border. There he changed to first, rendered immaculate his portly form, stepped off his train to sell zeppelins to Spaniards who did not think they wanted them...
Gertrude Ederle: "In Cleveland last week I rushed to the Radio Show before finishing supper. So I grabbed my dessert and ate it on the way. Said I: 'I don't care for such an exciting, rapid-fire existence. ... I never train. I eat what I please and when I please...
...Mayor will arrive in Asheville, the guest of local boosters, on a special train christened The Land of the Sky. Retiring from the public view for a few moments, Mr. Walker is scheduled to emerge in his grey "mountaineer-spun" suit...
Hotelmen know Mr. Statler, greyling, sexagenarian, for the most human of competitors. They know that they may come to him for advice on operating their inns. They send their sons to train in his hotels-the Hotels Statler of Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, and St. Louis, the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan. They count on easy entree to the Hotel Statler now abuilding on Park Square, Boston. He conceals his affairs so little, that he often, without forethought has exposed to strangers confidential reports on which his associates have spent hours of labor. Yet he does not thereby endanger the success...
...practical world, the problems of rental culture and physical equipment impinge on one another to an embarassing degree. Even granting the ability of colleges to train men in the mass, they lack the necessary equipment. In consequence, universities have had to cull from the stream of applicants those best equipped for advanced work. The methods used to effect this choice, intelligence tests, photographs, entrance examinations are simply practical rules, admittedly imperfect, which give some measure of the candidates for admission...