Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many mountain villages were wiped out by forest-fires between Kobe and Shimonoseki on the Empire's main island. A cyclone howled through the town of Fukui, unroofed houses, wrecked communications. At Nagoya, a despondent Japanese supplemented the work of the elements by throwing himself under a freight train. He was killed, the locomotive and 16 cars were wrecked, traffic from Tokyo to Shimonoseki stood still...
...train travelers who dislike horizontal undressing in a berth but cannot afford a drawing room or compartment, Pullman Co. last week had an announcement. Now abuilding, in new equipment for the New York Central's 20th Century Limited, the Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited, the North Western, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific streamliners and the Santa Fe's Chief, is a new Pullman creation-the "roomette." Occupying a little over the space of one section (upper & lower berths), it is a miniature compartment with a sliding metal door, a real bed which folds into the wall giving ample...
Nebraska-born President-elect Jeffers went to work for the U. P. in 1890 as an office boy at 14, successively rose to be train dispatcher, chief dispatcher, superintendent, general superintendent, operating vice president, executive vice president. Last week he declared: "I would rather be president of the U. P. than President...
...star of the Boston "Water Follies" did not appear to be at all reluctant to resurrect the subject of her dismissal from the 1936 Olympic team. "I had a whole month over there to train for my event, and I never intended to train on the boat." She asserted Olympic athletes ought to be old enough to be allowed to do what they see fit, then added, somewhat paradoxically, that the bar in the athletes' quarters should have been closed...
There's many a way of spending it, too. Some take the boat or train or plane or what have you for the "Sunny South" and come back looking bronzed and fit like a tycoon. We tried this on a time but frankly found it wanting. First, the Gulf Stream was rougher than the Channel or the Devil's Hole, and the ships must be small to get into Bermuda's harbor. When the sea starts bristling, it does something to the pit of our stomach. Second, we baked our back on the beach the first day, cooked...