Word: trained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From a short-circuited subway train under the East River, 800 passengers stampeded, trampling 89 of themselves but killing none...
Such, fairly and frankly set forth by an honest, candid man, is the train of thought by which 99 Britons out of 100 have arrived at the belief that it is right for them to have a larger navy than the U. S., which has so many less merchant ships and colonies to protect than they...
...afresh a stew of acute racial feeling. In the Cathedral at Zagreb a sharp-eared sacristan discovered a ticking bomb timed to explode during the King's birthday mass. Railway employes fished a 60-lb. bomb off the tracks of the Zagreb-Belgrade railroad just before the special train of a royalist delegation was due to pass. In Zagreb railway station one Dr. Rittig, Croatian priest who had protested loyalty to Jugoslavia's new regime, was severely pummeled by an unidentified assailant before boarding his train. All newspapers publishing accounts of bomb findings or of Dr. Rittig...
Godsend. The consuls of Britain, France, Japan, Germany and the U. S. who set out in a special train last fortnight to investigate conditions in the recent Russo-Chinese battle area in Manchuria (TIME, Dec. 23) chuffed back to Harbin last week, having been refused permission to visit the area they sought. "I am personally convinced," wired a Japanese correspondent who accompanied the party, "that neither the Russians nor the Chinese wanted us to see what is happening...
...Mexico is former President Plutarco Elias Calles, co-founder of the Grand Revolutionary Party with the late, great, assassinated President Alvaro Obregon. Last week he had revenge on District Attorney John A. Vails of Laredo, Tex., who had wished to arrest him on a murder charge as his special train passed through that city (TIME, Dec. 23), and who had denounced Calles to U. S, Secretary of State Henry L Stimson as "the greatest exponent of Bolshevism in the Western Hemisphere."* Back in Mexico after a pleasure trip to Europe, General Calles was received like a conquering hero...