Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First by train and next by forced marches up Shantung's best motor road, War Lord Han rushed Chefooward, then spread out his forces in an 80-mi. offensive front, aiming to envelop and crush Liu's troops among the mountains of Chefoo...
...Bronx, the six-fingered hand of Negro Will F. Woodard. a pickpocket with twelve fingers, got jammed in James Tewess' pocket as he slept in a subway train...
...Chicago, a southbound elevated train hit Charles Mead, lofted him over to the northbound tracks where a northbound train lofted him back to the southbound tracks where another train lofted him off the elevated structure to the ground. His worst injury: a broken...
...England, a third at Palm Beach. His wife, the former Anna Perkins Slade, daughter of onetime Harvard Professor Daniel Denison Slade, is a niece of Countess Edla of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha. He likes to tell how a British secret service agent whisked them out of Germany on a diplomatic train...
...been taught to hold a lighted candle in front of their mouths to make sure that no gusts of breath come out with the sound, to sing into an open umbrella so that the sound of their own voices comes back to them. One old Italian teacher used to train his pupils on the syllables bee-bah-lo-nee exclusively. Methods and phobias outnumber teachers. Alda's teacher, the late great Mathilde Marchesi, who also taught Melba and Calve, would never permit a pupil of hers to have her hair washed...