Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line that strikes 650 miles into Central China, connects Sian with Shanghai, Nanking and Peiping. Later it will stab on 400 miles further to Lanchow, remote outpost just south of the Great Wall. All last week excited passengers, most of whom had galloped in on horseback to see a train for the first time in their lives, rode the new railway on "shuttle excursions" up & clown the line...
...minutes before, Canadian National's crack Maple Leaf express (Chicago-Montreal) had shot through an open switch at a-mile-a-minute, knifed its way through two cars of a holiday excursion train, killed 15, injured 32. The excursion train had been stalled on a siding with engine trouble. A jittery brakeman, seeing the approaching headlight of the Maple Leaf, had lost his head, switched the flyer off the main line onto the siding...
Pressure, Down through a winterclad West Virginia valley before sunup puffed a four-car work-train filled with sleepy-eyed men. They were going to their jobs in a mine atop a nearby hill, owned by Elkhorn-Piney Coal Co., subsidiary of Koppers Coal & Transportation Co. of Pittsburgh, which also owned the train. As the train stopped at each little valley settlement, workmen climbed on jauntily swinging pails. With some 300 passengers aboard, Engineer William M. Blankenhorn stopped at the little mining community of Powellton, to work up more steam. Up & up went the pressure gauge. Satisfied that...
...vague possibility that the Harvard boxing team might fly rather than travel by train to Charlottesville, Va., to face the Cavaliers of the University of Virginia on January 12, was apparent at the offices of the H.A.A. yesterday, when coaches and athletic officials consulted time tables and rates for a plane trip to the southern town...
Whether the recount is to be official was undecided tonight. Neither Playfair nor Gibbs could be reached last night although the former was reported to be in Cambridge. Efforts to locate Gundlach, the retiring football captain, at his home in Houghton, Michigan, disclosed that he was on a train bound east. A sufficient number of the Student Council had not returned from their vacations to hand down an opinion...