Word: trained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winds, reveled in such simple qualities as innocence and joy, prayed these might not be tarnished. There followed an offer for seven concerts at $5,000 apiece, another from a San Francisco group for ten at $3,000 each but the Menuhins refused them both, boarded the train instead for San Francisco, permitted a birthday concert there and then announced a period of retirement "for the development of his musical and general education...
...hundred fifty two train passengers were killed in 1926 (latest available figures). In 1906, when the travelling public was much smaller, 359 were killed. Steel coaches, which in large part have replaced wooden coaches on the major railroads, largely explain the difference.* In 1906 a train wreck meant a holocaust? passengers mangled in cars telescoped and burning. In 1926 a wreck meant simply a bad accident. Steel may twist in a crash. It does not splinter nor burn. Pioneer in equipping passenger trains with all-steel cars was the Pennsylvania Railroad. Since 1907 it has bought no wooden ones. What...
...Other important factors of safety: more precise train operations, better signals, elimination of grade crossings, safety-first education...
Experiments with radio communication between moving trains and railroad signal towers had previously been made, but never before so successfully as last week on a mile-long New York Central freight train. In a tower at South Schenectady. N. Y., were Edward W. Rice Jr. and other General Electric officials; on the train were New York Central officials. They talked together, and clearly, as the train moved...
...have had some experience with American life, if possible in other parts of America. It is not an easy task for any of us to get accurate and adequate impressions of a country which is not our own. Few men know much about their own country, and to train oneself as an observer abroad usually requires much experience. There are many things in which all countries and all civilizations are mor or less alike. Thanks to this modern era of communication, we draw in all parts of the world upon much the same sources of supply...