Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After about an hour, the captains of both ships decided that they were leaking not too badly, limped into Victoria. Thence the Lyons sailed to Seattle where they boarded a special train for San Francisco to catch the fast Matson Liner Mariposa for Australia. Said genial Premier Lyons to Seattle reporters, "I wish you could meet my wife, but she's asleep. She was rather knocked out, you know, by the steamer collision. She'd been up early in the morning to see the scenery, hoping to have a good sleep that night, and that...
...Freistater applied for a teaching job in 1931, New York City examiners put her on the scales, found she weighed 182 Ib. Normal weight for a woman of Miss Freistater's 5 ft., 2 in. is 120 Ib. The examiners split the difference, gave her six months to train down to 150. The fretful life of a substitute teacher brought her down to 162 but at the end of six months she was back at 180. Refused a permanent job, she appealed to the New York State Commissioner of Education, who last week asked Board of Examiners Chairman Henry...
Thus Harlow Shapley, now about halfway along in his detailed census of the all-embracing Universe, was able to trace in Nature a continuous train of systems from the smallest known thing to the largest. Atoms with their electrons and nuclei are systems; so are molecules and molecular combinations such as crystals and colloids. Men, monkeys and chinch-bugs are colloidal aggregates. Then come meteoritic associations (comets, meteor streams), systems of satellites, stars, double and multiple stars, star clusters, galaxies, super-galaxies. Above all, the Universe of universes-the Metagalaxy. "That," says Harlow Shapley, "is as far as astronomy takes...
...faced Italian nuns with faint mustaches, were numerous bright-eyed little girls of assorted colors, daughters of Italians who have gone native in Ethiopia but made pious provision for their bastards by founding a convent school. Said an Italian consular official as he put the little girls on the train: "They are the future mothers of a new, nobler generation that is going to inhabit the country that was called Ethiopia...
Buxom Mistress Magda Lupescu lent her bullet-proof U. S. sedan to King Carol last week and His Majesty sent it down to Sinaia Station to fetch the Regent of Yugoslavia, esthetic Prince Paul, who arrived by special train from Belgrade. Up for discussion were Archduke Otto's chances of restoration as Austrian Emperor (TIME, July...