Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faith." "You will tie your hands if you adopt that!" cried Leader Henderson. Hoarse throats shut him up with shouts of "we want to tie your hands!" By a rising vote of acclaim Sir Charles Trevelyan's motion became law unto Laborites. He fired a powder train of resolutions in which the Congress voted last week to: I) Nationalize the Bank of Eng- land and the "Big Five" private banks; 2) abolish the House of Lords as "dangerous and unnecessary"; 3) maintain friendly trade relations with Soviet Russia; 4) bar from ever rejoining the Labor party not only James...
...officer's hard cap. His Majesty faced for a few brave hours the homage of mongrel natives in Massawa (where 112° F is not uncommon in October). Finally, with beads of perspiration standing out on his mustache, Italy's King repaired with relief to the special train that was to carry him up to Eritrea's high, cool plateau...
Belching clouds of smoke and cinders, His Majesty's locomotive tugged the royal train up and up, raised it a mile and one-half above sea level on the 75-mi. run to Asmara, Eritrea's capital, where natives of pure Abyssinian stock speak a language derived from ancient Geez...
When President Hoover's train pulled into West Liberty, Iowa (see p. II). Secret Service men lifted Mrs. Mollie Brown Carran, 73, aboard. "How are you, Herbert?" she asked proudly as they posed for photographers. She had been his first schoolteacher. She listened to a band of moppets singing "Iowa," saw the President accept a gift of corn. Sitting beside...
...traveler need not expect to be killed before his 20,000th flight. On a passenger-mile basis he is reasonably certain of flying 4,600,000 mi. safely. It is still, statistically, 100 times as hazardous to fly on regular airways as to take a train but only four times as dangerous as riding in an automobile. Including one absent-minded person who stepped into a propeller, only 27 passengers were killed on U. S. airlines last year. In the first half of this year...