Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Caught with unarmed Killer Karpis were the woman, named Ruth, and 37-year-old Fred Hunter, sought with Karpis for a $34,000 mail-train robbery last November at Garrettsville, Ohio...
From the house on Kingston Hill last week went word that new King Farouk planned to take train to Venice, there board the Italian liner Victoria for Alexandria. The British Foreign Office buzzed excitedly. Presently a new itinerary was announced: train to Marseille, the British liner Viceroy of India to Alexandria, and H. M. S. Ajax to escort the new King across the Mediterranean. Farouk, in his first act as King, politely declined the Ajax. The kindness of the British Admiralty to young King Farouk was matched last week by the British Royal family. King Edward VIII invited King Farouk...
...When two-thirds of the people who use a certain language decide to call it a freight-train instead of a goods-train they are 'right'; and the first is correct English and the second a dialect." Americanisms, which have been forcing their way into English since the early 19th Century, have lately "been entering at a truly dizzy pace." Two causes: i) British cinemaddicts absorb more U. S. talkies than their own. 2) "The influence of 125,000,000 people, practically all headed in one direction, is simply too great to be resisted by any minority, however...
...Manhattan, women passengers helped Mrs. Rose Granger, 19, from a subway train, modestly formed a ring around her on the platform while she gave birth to a two-pound...
Railroad men prefer to write annual reports almost exclusively with figures. Though he may be baffled by such things as average gross tons per freight-locomotive mile or average cars per passenger-train mile, an inquisitive stockholder may learn how many hopper-bottom gondolas he owns or what percentage of main and branch lines are laid with 131-lb. rails. As conservative as the roads themselves, official statements are perennially drab in format. Last week Union Pacific broke its tradition of severe grey covers by dressing up its annual report for 1935 with a picture of a streamlined locomotive with...