Word: trained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...20th Century Dutch Queen at the same time. Queen Emma, unmoved, strode through the galleries for four and a half hours more. She at no time seemed fatigued or in need of sitting down. At dusk she was still chatty and firm on her feet as she boarded her train back to The Hague. The entire trip took 28 hours...
Promptly at the appointed time His Majesty, Queen Alexandrine, and Prince Knud boarded their train. Promptly the train left. It rolled smoothly across France to Paris, from Paris to Berlin, Berlin to Warnemunde, on the Baltic; and at Warnemunde slid on the ferry that was to carry the train across an arm of the sea to Denmark. Six hours more, and they would be in Copenhagen. Practically nothing more could happen, unless the royal car should slip off the ferry into the sea. This very nearly had occurred on a previous occasion and worried trainmen roped and chained the train...
...true. So heavy were the ice jams in the Baltic that train and ferry were caught fast in the midst of the frozen sea. King Christian and his consort and their son were forced to spend the night marooned on a motionless ferryboat until released by Government icebreakers in the morning...
...department which draws in college men is the department of training, which in many cases is a branch of the Department of Personnel. Due to greater ability, potentially at least, to teach, many large establishments like Macy's frequently put the college men through different departments in rapid succession, with the idea that they may be used in the various phases of training. It is in these training departments that many college people, both men and women, remain sometimes for a number of years, as ability to train sales and other operating personnel is not only interesting, but well paid...
...ghost" cartoonist; James M. Cox, whom Harding buried; Scarf ace Al Capone, shadow of Chicago in Florida's sunshine; Pony McAtee, a jockey; Tris Speaker, whose name is on small boys baseball bats; Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Chadbourne, who had come from New York by special train with guests; Johnny Farrell, national open golf champion; Caleb Bragg, who drives automobiles at breakneck speed...