Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they played with worn-out canvas gloves and three damaged bats, was equally reassuring. Then the boys saw something else. A washout had completely carried away the ballast from under a section of track on the nearby Erie R. R. right-of-way! Aware that an 8:10 commuting train was soon due, the boys pulled off their raincoats, ran down the track waving them wildly. The engineer said that if the boys had not been spry they would have been killed as he jerked his train to a stop, saving the lives of 500 passengers. The grateful Erie promised...
...unsolved burglaries was a black-eye to Scotland Yard's reputation. Lord Trenchard made three suggestions: removal of the rule providing that higher police officers must first pass through the ranks; greater insistence on the educational qualifications of candidates: establishment of a "police college" to train promising younger men on the force. ''It seems to me impossible.'' he wrote, "longer to shirk the problem of how to obtain a steady supply of the best brains from every available source...
...boost to Chinese morale was the energetically spread rumor that Germany's crack Drillmaster General Hans von Seeckt ("the man with the iron mask and the monocle") was coming to train Chinese armies. The old Junker who organized the Reichswehr. happened to be on a world tour of the Far Kast last week. Before he left Berlin he had left blanket denials that he was going anywhere to drill anybody...
...days later Mr. Davis backed France and Britain to the full against German requests for "sample" tanks and siege guns, and let correspondents understand that this too was a Roosevelt-Hcrriot-MacDonald agreement. London. Next day the oracle spoke again, from Britain, whither the Ambassador-at-Large hurried by train and plane to join the organizing committee of the World Economic Conference. Again he had an official announcement...
...Guest was in London, just back from lion-shooting in Africa. His cousin Michael Phipps called him up from Florida, urged him to reorganize their team. Guest flew to board the Bremen, flew from Manhattan to Virginia to inspect his ponies, played one practice game in Manhattan and took train for Chicago. Iglehart got word in Paris, came over on the Berengaria, played in Chicago the night after his boat docked in New York. Last week Guest's team retained its Class A championship by beating the Sixth Corps Area 16 to 8 with a two-goal man. Harvey...