Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the first two years of college study are spent satisfying requirements for distribution and survey work, the ordinary graduate of Harvard is apt to receive a superficial education and not train his mind in a comprehensive manner which will benefit him afterwards. In addition, men who reach Cambridge with an adequate preparation find that they are wasting their time and turn their minds to other activities...
...found on a railroad track in the wild and rocky country outside Dijon. He had been called from Paris by a false message that his mother was dangerously ill. When found, he had been doped, one ankle tied to the rails and his body mangled by a passing train. The music roll that he used for a briefcase was found about 30 yards away, rifled of its contents, together with his keys, his money, and a scattered flurry of visiting cards. There was also a big clasp knife, stained with his blood. Chemical analysis showed that it was the thickened...
Jugoslavian Ministers called the new King, 11-year-old Peter, home from school in England to his throne. He was to rule under a Regency which would undoubtedly include his mother Marie but not, thought observers, his scapegrace Uncle George. Enroute to Paris by train, home-loving Queen Marie, 34, sister of Rumania's Carol, heard of her husband's death at Besancon, turned and sped under heavy guard to Marseilles, asked that the body be untouched until she came...
...Harvard 300 students waited for an Italian fencing team to put in its appearance. Few hours later the fencers climbed off the train they had boarded in Manhattan, set off down Cincinnati's streets to look for Harvard...
...Hill's The Westward Star, a narrative of covered-wagon days, points to another U.S. epic that has yet to be given definitive form. Poet Hill plucks his lyre with a surer hand. Though few would compare him with Homer, many would place him close to Masefield. A wagon train bound for the West, just before the days of the gold rush, comes safely through the central prairies, then divides, some for Oregon, some for the shorter but more dangerous trail to Cali fornia. To get her daughter Celeste away from Emmet, a rough-&-ready Westerner, her mother sees...