Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significantly the French Premier was curt as he caught the night train for Paris. With French elections looming May i, he left his big Flandin to attend to what was going to happen in London, spent a bad night on the Channel and was up at 6 a. m. to dictate the whole way to Paris...
Meanwhile Dr. Luther was showing his friends a bullet hole through his clothing. "I'm not wounded at all!" he insisted, but friends forced him to undress. On the skin of the President of the Reichsbank they found a light red bullet crease, painted it with iodine as the train pulled out for Basle...
...latest faculty report from Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn's experimental college at Wisconsin University contains a proposal that college, especially state institutions, should mould their curricula so as to train students to deal with the particular problems of the state in which they are located. Asserting the need for expert public servants, the report claims that the best way to impart the essential training is to use the local problems as a basis for a curriculum and to illustrate solutions with examples taken from history...
Thus one day 150 subway employes dared to threaten the company with baseball bats. Shouldering these popular sporting weapons (even Crown Prince Chichibu plays baseball) they swaggered boldly into a subway train, shooed ouf the passengers, closed all the doors. Neither they nor the train would move, they announced, until the company gave them shorter hours, more...
...cannot move far in Germany without encountering?whether you know it or not?the name of Junkers. It may be on the radiator in your hotel room; on the locomotive of your train (it may have been in the engine room of the steamer which took you there); under the hood of your motorbus; on the hot water tap in your bathroom. If you travel by airline anywhere in Europe the odds are 2-to-1 that the name of Junkers is on your plane. Last week the Junkers name was in world-wide headlines. The Junkers Aircraft Company...