Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writer has long been convinced that the real key to unemployment lies in encouragement of potential employers. The tactics of our legislative bodies, however, especially in the matter of additional depressing taxes which are being loaded on that group, remind me of a sheepherder I once saw trying to train a dog. He kept shouting "Come here, you so-and-so" while he threw rocks...
Silence in the observation train. The entire flotills of destroyers, patrol boats, canoes, yachts, and excursion steamers which follow the wake of the racing shells seem to pause in absolute quiet. Clearly, Referee Curtiss voice rings out for all to hear, "Are you ready...
...Ulbricks all stand-out coaches. The latter three are all Washington men, that institution in crew coaching today as Notre Dane does in football. Other stories might told about each of them. And more color can be found in the lakes and inlets rivers, upon which the crews train, but late in the afternoon of Tuesday, June 18 eyes will be on Poughkeepsie, in the seven lanes leading out from the west the Hudson river...
...INTERVALS of one hour, the three races, freshman, junior varsity, and will be rowed for respective distances of two, three, and four miles, begins at four o'clock eastern standard time. Each time, the observation train will start follow the boats, as will the river flotills. Twice they will retrace their movement until the big varsity race...
Narrator of The Last of Mr. Norris is a young English Communist-intellectual. On a train to Berlin he shares a compartment with an older man, whose beautiful wig and inexplicable nervousness excite his curiosity. The young man soon discovers many a queer fact about bewigged Mr. Norris: he is a masochist, his affairs are suspiciously vague, he is somehow under the thumb of his surly secretary. Sometimes Mr. Norris seems to be rolling in money; the next, he is in Micawberish straits. Consistently disingenuous, he is soon shown to be a clumsy but optimistic liar. But the young...